Religion, Humanism, Arts And Learning Flashcards
Why was church important (4)
Lives lived and regulated according to churches major ceremonies
8000 parish churches = focus of religious experience
Focus for popular entertainment = festivals
Guilds and comfraternities = charity
What is an erastian view
State should have control over the church
What was transubstantiation
The Christian belief that bread and wine changed into the body and blood of Christ during mass
Why was mass important (2)
Sacrifice performed by priest on behalf of community
Sacred ritual in which the whole community participated
Corpus Christi (2+)
Body of Christ
Feast of Catholic Church which celebrates and emphasised importance of transubstantiation
Chantries
Pray for the souls of the dead
Pilgrimage
Journey to a place of religious devotion
What event emphasised importance of parish church as key focus for locals (2)
Simpler form of pilgrimage on rogation Sunday when the whole community would walk round parish boundaries to pray for its protection
Carry banners and parish cross to ward of evil spirits
Locations of pilgrimage (2)
Thomas becket(saint) tomb at Canterbury
Shrine of Virgin Mary built at Walsingham in Norfolk
Monastic orders (2)
By 1500 = 1% males = monks
900 religious communities across the country
Heresy
Denial of the validity of key doctrines of church
Anticlericalsim
Opposition to church role in political and non religious matters
Laity
Members who were not priests or part of another religious order
What were Lollards (3)
Stressed importance of understanding the bible = translation to English favoured
Sceptical of transubstantiation
Catholic Church = corrupt
What happened to heretics
Burning of heretics introduced to English law in 1401 = few suffered from this
