MEDIEVAL CHURCH

Village Church

• Stone churches to huge Cathedrals

• Housed Relics

The Parish Priest

• Administered the SacramentsSacraments– Lead to Salvation

Baptism – Reconciliation – Penance (conversion, confession and celebration)Eucharist – communion…receiving Christ's Body and BloodConfirmation – mature Christian commitmentMarriage – Holy Orders – OrdinationAnointing of the Sick – formerly known as Last

Village Church

Paid with the Tithe – Tithe –

10% income tax paid to church

MONASTERIES AND CONVENTSMonks/Nuns

Looked after the poor and sick

Kept learning alive

• Friars

Served as missionaries

POWER AND CORRUPTIONOF CHURCH

Papal SupremacyPapal Supremacy

• Authority over all SecularSecular rulers

• Pope (Vatican) had own army

• Bishops were Nobles

POWER AND CORRUPTIONOF CHURCH

Papal SupremacyPapal Supremacy

• Authority over all SecularSecular rulers

• Pope (Vatican) had own army

• Bishops were Nobles

• Developed Canon Law

POWER AND CORRUPTIONOF CHURCH

Excommunication • No sacraments or Christian burial

InterdictInterdict• Excommunication of entire

town or kingdom

Gothic ArchitectureGraceful spires and tall windows

Jews in Medieval Europe

Early Middle Ages

• Flourished in Muslim Spain

• German kings hired educated Jews

Jews in Medieval Europe1000’s

Not allowed to own land

Migrated to Eastern Europe or Muslim landsPrince Bolesław the Pious (1221-1279), 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

Jews in Medieval Europe

1000’s

Christians blamed Jews for Disasters

Christians did not understand culture