Monastic Life Flashcards
1
Q
What are the vows?
A
Poverty, chasity,obedience
2
Q
What is chasity
A
You can’t get married
3
Q
What five things do monasteries and nunneries do
A
Provide food money and clothing for poor
Care for sick
Act as a school
Act as a library
Provide a bed for tired travellers
4
Q
Four reasons the church was so wealthy and powerful
A
Everyone was religious
The church got one tenth of peoples food grown
Peasants worked for free
The church was a major landowner in England
5
Q
What were towns like hygiene wise?
A
Smelly
Dirty
Waste on streets
Waste in rivers
Sewage everywhere
6
Q
What were towns like trade wise?
A
Markets were held once or twice a week
People brought things they had made like corn,milk and meat
Britains most expensive export was wool
