Religion Flashcards
What power did the church have over people’s lives?
Lives were regulated according to the Church’s major ceremonies
How many parish churches were there?
8000
What else did the church provide?
Entertainment, with its festivals being linked to the agricultural year, giving much needed enjoyment through teh community.
How did the church link in with the elites?
Their values of good behaviour, obedience and stress on community allowed social control to be easier.
What was the highest position in the church?
The Pope in Rome, who wielded spiritual power and was the head of a state in Northern Italy.
What interference did the pope take with henry?
Little as the king was firmly in control and popes were generally eager to grant the king his wishes.
What were the two administrative provinces. for the church in England?
Canterbury and York
Who ran the major provinces in the church?
archbishops
What was common among the clergy?
Having a political role, with senior figures in the church often being drawn from the aristocracy
What political role did the abbots have?
heads of the wealthiest religious houses, shared membership of the house of lords
Keep organisations running as well as keeping the spiritual reputation of their houses going.
What are the 7 sacraments?
Baptism
Confirmation
Marriage
Anointing of the sick
Penance
Holy orders
Eucharist
What was hte central religious experience?
the mass, where the priest would perform holy communion or the eucharist.
What was believed about the Eucharist?
HTe bread and wine would be transformed into the body and blood of Christ, known as transusbtantiation
Why was the mass so important?
It was a sacrifice performed by the priest on behalf of the community
It was a sacred ritual which promoted community.
Why would the dying leave money to their parish church?
-Enhance the beauty of it
-Allow for remembrance
-Reduce time spent in purgatory.
Why would benefactors leave money to the church?
Bettered their own religious experience and their community.
What was the confraternity?
Groups of men who gathered together, usually in association with the parish church, to prove collectively for the funeral cost of members and other things to pay for in the church.
What role did guilds have?
They were very popular and varied in size and wealth, with wealthier guilds being a source of local patronage and power, and some running schools and all houses.
What were the pilgrimages?
Another way in which an individual could remain relief from purgatory
Involved the visiting of a saint’s tomb or shrine where the Virgin Mary had visited.
What were the 3 religious orders
Monastic orders, frairs and nunneries.
What was the oldest religious order?
The Benedictines, who had large houses who could operate as cathedrals, such as in Durham, showing the emphasis on community.
Where would monasteries recruit from?
Predominantly from their own localities .
What was the job of the friars?
Orders of friars would work among lay people.
Where would friars have recruited from?
Lower down the social scale than larger monasteries.
