1. MEDIEVAL CHURCH

2. Center of manorial life was the Village life was also very communal
village church
Village life was also very communal

3. Administered the Sacraments
The Parish Priest
Administered the Sacraments
Lead to Salvation
Baptism –
Reconciliation – Penance (conversion, confession and celebration)
Eucharist – communion…receiving Christ's Body and Blood
Confirmation – mature Christian commitment
Marriage –
Holy Orders –
Ordination
Anointing of the Sick – formerly known as Last

4. Village Church
Paid with the Tithe –
10% income tax paid to church

5. MONASTERIES AND CONVENTS
Monks/Nuns
Looked after the poor and sick
Kept learning alive
Friars
Served as missionaries

6. POWER AND CORRUPTION OF CHURCH
Papal Supremacy
Authority over all Secular rulers
Pope (Vatican) had own army
Bishops were Nobles

7. POWER AND CORRUPTION OF CHURCH
Papal Supremacy
Authority over all Secular rulers
Pope (Vatican) had own army
Bishops were Nobles
Developed Canon Law

8. POWER AND CORRUPTION OF CHURCH
Excommunication
No sacraments or Christian burial
Interdict
Excommunication of entire
town or kingdom
Gothic Architecture
Graceful spires and tall windows

9. Eastern (Greek) Orthodox Church
Byzantine Empire
Christian church became known as
Eastern (Greek) Orthodox Church 9

10. Hagia Sophia Constantinople
Hagia Sophia Istanbul

11. Eastern (Greek) Orthodox Church
Patriarch
Eastern (Greek) Orthodox Church
Pope
Roman Catholic Church 11

12. The Great Schism separation between the Roman Catholic Church the Eastern Orthodox Church
Eastern Orthodox Church did not accept the
Pope’s claim as head of Church 12

13. The Great Schism separation between the Roman Catholic Church the Eastern Orthodox Church
Eastern Orthodox Church did not accept the
Pope’s claim as head of Church
1054 Pope & Patriarch
excommunicated each other 13

14. Jews in Medieval Europe
Early Middle Ages
Flourished in Muslim Spain
German kings hired educated Jews

15. Jews in Medieval Europe
Not allowed to own land
Migrated to Eastern Europe or Muslim lands
Prince Bolesław the Pious ( ), the dominant prince in a fractured Poland, issued the Statute of Kalisz in 1264 in which he designated the Jews as a special and protected population in Poland

16. Jews in Medieval Europe
Christians blamed Jews for Disasters
Christians did not understand culture