Lecture 5: Church and Peasantry Flashcards
Who was at the top of the Church hierarchy?
The pope in Rome
What did monastic/ritual orders preserve from the past?
grecoroman texts
What were the Church’s main interests for education? (2)
Theology and the afterlife
What were the main ways common people encountered religion in their lives? (3)
Sacraments, sermons and festivals
Who was at the center of village life?
the priest
True or False: the Church is the largest landowner in Europe
true
Is the Clergy governed by secular law or its own canon law?
canon law
True or false: the Pope was not a political figure
False, he was
What were the three main results of the Crusades?
Contact between Western and Eastern Europe, extended church authority, created “crusader states” in the East
What were the goals of sumptuary laws?
Preventing the richer lower/middle class from buying “too much” or many things seen as reserved for the rich to avoid bringing them closer to the nobles
True or False: peasants often skirted or ignored laws and obligations
True
Peasants had a strong sense of identity and solidarity
False
How were peasant women seen next to men?
Seen as innately weaker though individuals could overcome it
True or false: widowed peasant women had more freedom than married ones
True
What was the economy like at the time?
mostly agrarian with limited banking since usury was seen as a sin
How was elite wealth calculated?
in the size and worth of their lands
True or False: towns fit well into the orders of society
False, they rivaled the idea of land tenure as a basis of wealth
Who were the two parallel and competing power structures at this time?
Religious elite and secular elite
