What+was+the+role+of+the+church+in+Medieval+Time?

Morgan Corbett, Ashley Cavers & Austin Goodbrand

 **//Churches in medieval times//**
 * Feudalism ** ** System **

The bishop of Rome as head of the Roman Catholic Church  **The Archbishops: **  The chief bishop responsible for an archdiocese A senior member of the Christian clergy, typically in charge of a diocese and empowered to confer holy orders An ordained minister of the Catholic, Orthodox, or Anglican Church having the authority to perform certain rites and administer certain sacraments An inhabitant of a parish, esp. one who belongs to or attends a particular church
 * The pope: **
 *  The Bishops: **
 * The Priests: **
 * The Parishioners: **

 **Building a Cathedral **  <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">

“Between the years 900 and 1000, more then 1500 churches were built in France alone. After that a lot of cathedrals were build all over Europe. Citizens and Bishops took great pride in their cathedrals. They had competitions to see which city could produce the tallest, most beautiful cathedral. The local citizens would pour their money and labor into construction. Hundreds of skilled craftsmen were involved such as, masons, sculptors, carpenters, blacksmiths, and workers in stained glass. The peasants in the village did all the hard work.”

The church often was one of the only buildings in the village made out of brick. The roof would usually be made out of wooden shingles or slate, supported with wooden crossbeams. If the village could afford them the cathedrals would have stain glass windows. Many churches were built in the shape of a cross. In a church that is the shape like a cross usually the altar would usually be the upper part of the building.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> **<span style="color: #ff8300; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Churches in General <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> What is a church? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> A church is a place where people go to worship and praise their god. **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**<span style="color: #4bf00f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Who invented churches? ** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> The Jewish society invented churches, although back then they were called "synagogues"

**<span style="color: #ff5ce9; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Churches in medieval Europe: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-weight: normal;"> During the 11th through 14th centuries, a wave of building of cathedrals and smaller parish churches happened across Western Europe. Adding on to being a place of worship, the cathedral was used by the community in other ways. It could be used as a meeting place for guilds or a hall for banquets. Mystery plays were sometimes performed in cathedrals, and cathedrals might also be used for fairs. The church could also be used as a place to store grain. ** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Places we used for information:** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_(building) dictionary on mac Social 8 textbook

___

Brock, Raistlin, Sam One reason the church was so powerful was the fact that church officials were largely the only ones who could read. This meant that the people in the church had to rely on the church officials to tell them what the bible said. Until there was such thing as a printing press the church scribes had to carefully copy the bible by hand. When the printing press was built the bible was mass-produced. People used the pages in the bible to learn how to read. People began to question if the church officials had told them the right things out of the bible. Another reason that the church was so powerful was because it made laws and set up courts if needed. The medieval times were a great time for church building. Between the year 900 and 1000 there were over 1500 churches built. The cities even had a competition to see who could make the tallest most beautiful church.

In Medieval England, people lived in crock houses. The crock houses were filthy, no more than two rooms, with a wooden frame (a mixture of mud, straw and manure). There are no crock houses exist anymore- most crock houses collapsed after a while as they were so poorly built. There are many Medieval churches around. The way they were built they have lasted for centuries. Architecture played a very important role for the church in Medieval England.

Why did the church to control to give salvation to the people? Some of the crusades failed but only one success. The church was a valuable prized religion in medieval time. The church sent many crusades because they wanted to bring back the holy land from Muslims. They have fought in the Palestine. In 1071, Muslims from turkey fought and actually captured Jerusalem and stopped the Christians from entering holy land. That’s because of the fighting against Christians VS Muslims. The first crusade was followed by Peter the hermit and the pope. Eventually pope urban II said that he would forgive anyone who traveled and fought in the holy land. The Christian killed many religious people. They killed some of the Germans, Greeks, and the Jews. The weaponry of the first crusade were successful and took Jerusalem from the Muslims. Video [|video]

(sam)(brock) The pope and Roman Catholic Church made many positive and negative influences during the medieval times. Some positive were education and music. Some negative influences were the crusades and the conflict between kings and the pope over power. If you were a deeply religious person you would join churches and put all you time to learning about god. Music had an influence on the people in the medieval times. The pope believed that god gave him power to lead everyone to believe in god. Medieval churches were so important to society because for hundreds of years they took care of physical and educational needs.

The Roman Catholic Church touched everyone's life in some way, no matter where they live or what their rank was. Everyone in Europe was a Christian during the Middle Ages from the richest king. The monks and nuns had to serve god, This meant getting up at midnight for the first service of the day (called Matins), It could last until dawn. After Matins came Lauds, then Prime etc. every few hours throughout the day until Vespers and Comp line in the evening. In between these services called 'God's Work' there was barely any time for a few hours of sleep, for meals (vegetable soup) or fish (monks or nuns were supposed to eat meat only! when they were ill), also work in the garden, monks and nuns grew their own food and sometimes made their own clothes. The nuns and monk cared for old people, And for the sick people. There was a disease that was going around called ‘leprosy’ The monks and nuns also ran the hospitals, there was over 400 hospitals in England. Nuns and monks also taught boys (sometimes girls) how to read and write.

(Brock)An advantage of the church is that it gave out lineate penalties. Christian churches were found everywhere in Europe. Most people that went to church were from western Europeans and Christians. Rome was the capital of the empire and became the seat for the pope. The pope was the head of the church and the most powerful person in the church. He even had power over the king and queen when it came to religion.

(TJD And Casey) There’re different levels of hierarchy in the churches there’s the pope, the archbishops, the bishops, the priests and the Parishioners. Anyone higher in the church must help the lower standings.

Lots of religious people died in the churches while trying to take care of people who have gotten the black plague while taking care of the sick they where also spreading the disease.

Monks and nuns where very well educated unlike some of the other people during medieval times because they where the only ones that could read.

Monasteries became great places of learning where geometry, geography, music and grammar where taught.

Being part of the church and being a Christian helped people be more part of the Community.

People would put lots of money into helping the construction of churches.

Peasants did the heavy work done on the church.

The bishops and people had a competition of who could have the biggest and best Church.

Hundred of people that were masons, sculptors, carpenters, blacksmiths, and stained glass workers helped make the churches.

The Black Death made people not believe in god anymore because they thought he abandoned them.

There was a tax called tithe that meant people had to pay 10% of what they earn to the church.

If people did not pay the tithe the church would tell them that their souls where going to hell when they died.

Cathedrals where the biggest churches there where they where bigger then royal palaces.

To help make a cathedral was an honor because it was so great and big and special.