1. Crusades and Culture in the Middle Ages
Chapter 12 Lesson 1
Medieval Christianity
By: Laura Garcia
Class of 2018

2. Social
Families would find husbands for their daughters, but many chose to go to convents to live a religious life for the following reasons.
Couldn't find a husband
Didn't want to marry
Was a widow
The social classes of the Church
1.Pope 2.Cardinals 3.Archbishops Bishops
5. Parish Priest/ Clergy The People

3. Political Germany The Catholic Church
Monarchy
King used to be able to appoint high-ranking clerics as their vassals to use them as administrators until the Concordat of worms came around.
The Catholic Church
The Church had great power during the Papacy of Pope In
Interdicts was used to forbid priests from giving the sacraments to a particular group of people. To exert pressure against their rulers.
People depended on the clergy to achieve salvation because only they could administer the sacraments
There were many religious orders such as the Dominicans.

4. Interaction between humans and the environment
The use of relics was deemed that relics could heal people or produce miracles.
The Black Death was a huge disease during this times.
During the Medieval technology, there was many technological advances.
Gunpowder
Windmills
Spectacles
Gothic architecture
Medieval castles

5. Cultural Religion was Catholicism Architecture Literature
Jesus is the Son of God; The Bible is the inspired, error-free, and revealed word of God.
Architecture
Gothic architecture
Romanesque churches
Literature
Chanson de geste/ heroic epic
Troubadour Poetry

6. Economic
Cistercians spent more time on manual labor. Manual labor gained by spending fewer hours at religious services.