The Contribution of Christianity in Medieval Britain

Question 1

Why was the church’s attitudes very important to developments?

Answer 1

It was central to the lives of medieval people

Question 2

How did crusades encouraged by the church result in medical progress?

Answer 2

Western Europeans met Muslim doctors so the ideas in the Islamic Empire could be used in Europe

Question 3

How did monks help preserve Ancient Greek and Roman medical ideas?

Answer 3

Copied and translated medical texts when the Ancient Greek and Roman Empires fell

Question 4

Why did the church tell people to help the sick?

Answer 4

Jesus’s teachings- Christian duty

Question 5

Who were hospitals funded by?

Answer 5

The church or aristocratic patrons

Question 6

How many hospitals were started in England between 1000 and 1500?

Answer 6

Over 700

Question 7

Why were monasteries hygienic?

Answer 7

They had clean water and good sewage facilities

Question 8

What type of schools did the church set up in Europe?

Answer 8

University schools of medicine

Question 9

What did monks translate?

Answer 9

Islamic texts

Question 10

What did the encouragement of the crusades divert funds away from?

Answer 10

Hospitals and health

Question 11

What type of causes did the church promote?

Answer 11

Supernatural

Question 12

Who did the church say would heal illness?

Answer 12

God

Question 13

What were viewed as the most important kind of treatment?

Answer 13

Prayers

Question 14

What were indulgences?

Answer 14

Special prayers

Question 15

Where would Christians go on pilgrimages to?

Answer 15

Relics or the resting places of saints

Question 16

Why did people go on pilgrimages?

Answer 16

In the hopes of being miraculously cured

Question 17

Why could Galen’s mistakes not be corrected?

Answer 17

The church only allowed dissections no executed criminals

Question 18

What groups of people did many hospitals refuse to take in?

Answer 18

The very sick, women

Question 19

What did people begin questioning the church’s reliance on?

Answer 19

Old books and not original research

Question 20

What happened to scientists who challenged the old books of ancient methods?

Answer 20

They were arrested

Question 21

Who was Roger Bacon?

Answer 21

A lecturer at Oxford University who had questioned the church’s stance on Galen

Question 22

Why were hospitals usually overseen by priests and not doctors?

Answer 22

They were destined to help look after the sick, not treat and health them

Question 23

Why were most hospitals and medicines palliative?

Answer 23

They relieve symptoms and didn’t cure conditions

Question 24

What was the most famous pilgrimage to?

Answer 24

The Holy Land

Question 25

What were the pilgrimages in England?

Answer 25

Canterbury, Walsingham, Glastonbury or the Priory ar Bridlington

Question 26

What was a source of miracles at the Priory at Bridlington?

Answer 26

St John’s of Bridlington’s grave

Question 27

Who visited St John of Bridlington’s grave after winning at Agincourt?

Answer 27

Henry V

Question 28

Who was the grave of St John of Bridlington special to?

Answer 28

Women in labour and sailors