Religion

Question 1

What power did the church have over people’s lives?

Answer 1

Lives were regulated according to the Church’s major ceremonies

Question 2

How many parish churches were there?

Answer 2

8000

Question 3

What else did the church provide?

Answer 3

Entertainment, with its festivals being linked to the agricultural year, giving much needed enjoyment through teh community.

Question 4

How did the church link in with the elites?

Answer 4

Their values of good behaviour, obedience and stress on community allowed social control to be easier.

Question 5

What was the highest position in the church?

Answer 5

The Pope in Rome, who wielded spiritual power and was the head of a state in Northern Italy.

Question 6

What interference did the pope take with henry?

Answer 6

Little as the king was firmly in control and popes were generally eager to grant the king his wishes.

Question 7

What were the two administrative provinces. for the church in England?

Answer 7

Canterbury and York

Question 8

Who ran the major provinces in the church?

Answer 8

archbishops

Question 9

What was common among the clergy?

Answer 9

Having a political role, with senior figures in the church often being drawn from the aristocracy

Question 10

What political role did the abbots have?

Answer 10

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.

Question 11

What are the 7 sacraments?

Answer 11

Baptism
Confirmation
Marriage
Anointing of the sick
Penance
Holy orders
Eucharist

Question 12

What was hte central religious experience?

Answer 12

the mass, where the priest would perform holy communion or the eucharist.

Question 13

What was believed about the Eucharist?

Answer 13

HTe bread and wine would be transformed into the body and blood of Christ, known as transusbtantiation

Question 14

Why was the mass so important?

Answer 14

It was a sacrifice performed by the priest on behalf of the community
It was a sacred ritual which promoted community.

Question 15

Why would the dying leave money to their parish church?

Answer 15

-Enhance the beauty of it
-Allow for remembrance
-Reduce time spent in purgatory.

Question 16

Why would benefactors leave money to the church?

Answer 16

Bettered their own religious experience and their community.

Question 17

What was the confraternity?

Answer 17

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.

Question 18

What role did guilds have?

Answer 18

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.

Question 19

What were the pilgrimages?

Answer 19

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.

Question 20

What were the 3 religious orders

Answer 20

Monastic orders, frairs and nunneries.

Question 21

What was the oldest religious order?

Answer 21

The Benedictines, who had large houses who could operate as cathedrals, such as in Durham, showing the emphasis on community.

Question 22

Where would monasteries recruit from?

Answer 22

Predominantly from their own localities .

Question 23

What was the job of the friars?

Answer 23

Orders of friars would work among lay people.

Question 24

Where would friars have recruited from?

Answer 24

Lower down the social scale than larger monasteries.

Question 25

Why did nunneries have less prestige?

Answer 25

Mostly populated by women deemed unsuitable for marriage + were relatively poor

Question 26

What differed the Lollards from average catholicism?

Answer 26

They placed stress on the understanding of the bible, wanting a vernacular bible, and were sceptical about transubstantiation.