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Medieval Church
Ch 8; Sec 3 Notes
Dominating Roman Catholic Church:
 After the “fall of Rome” the church spilt between _________________________
_____________________________
 Roman Catholic Church (__________)—This becomes the
most powerful _____________________________________________________
Church Hierarchy:
Pope
(________________________________________)
Archbishop (________________________________________)
__________________
Church Law:
**ALL people are sinners!!! So they must OBEY!
 *Sacraments- ______________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
 *Canon Laws-Laws of the church---____________________________________
 *Excommunication- _________________________________________________
***Remember: The church had the power of salvation over everyone (from Kings to
Serfs). So, people were afraid of _________________________________
Daily Life:
 All social life revolved around the ______________________________________
 *Tithe- ___________________________________________________________
 Women were inferior to men BUT _____________________________________
Monastic Life:
 Monks & nuns _____________________________________________________
 Benedictine Rule-___________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
 Monasteries become places of great ___________________________
(Preserving New farm techniques, wine making, even pretzel making)
 Missionaries-_______________________________________________________
Attempts at Reform:
 Corruption & Moral Decay-Church Clergy becomes too involved _____________
__________________________________________________________________
 CLUNY Monastery in France-_________________________________________
 Celibacy becomes the rule-____________________________________________
 Friar Monks-_____________________________________ (Think Siena College)
Jews in Europe:
 Remember DIASPORA?—___________________________________________
 Jews are tolerated by ________________________________________________
 Roman Catholic Church did not tolerate the ______________________________
__________________________________________________________________
 Jews are now blamed for everything: ___________________________________
 *Anti-Semitism-____________________________________________________
 Many Jews leave the area ____________________________________________