Religion, humanism and the arts

Cards (62)

  • how many parish churches
    8000
  • what did the church provide
    entertainment, festivals, guilds and confraternities to promote Christian charity and devotion, employment, community
  • why did the church make it easier for social elites to maintain their cntrol
    encourages obedience, good behaviour, values of community
  • what did the church allow
    social advancement through appointment of high office in church and state
  • what was the relationship between the church and state
    erastian
  • erastian
    state should have authority over church
  • the papacy had no objection to what
    way in which Henry would reward his ministers using the wealth of the church
  • how many provinces
    2
    canterbury
    york
  • how many dioceses
    17
  • which dioceses were particularly wealth
    Winchester
    Durham
  • what were cardinals
    spokespeople for the Pope around Europe
  • who were bishops
    members of nobility
    2nd sons of nobles
  • what were open monastic orders
    friars
  • enclosed monastic orders
    monks, nuns
  • example of religious position being drawn from high aristocracy
    LMB's great uncle, Cardinal and Bishop of Winchester
  • what position in gov was monopolised by clergymen
    lord chancellor
  • who were 2 influential clergymen
    Richard Fox,
    John Morton
  • who shared membership of the House of Lords with who
    Abbots and Bishops
  • 7 sacraments
    baptism
    confirmation
    marriage
    anointing the sick
    penance
    holy orders
    eucharist
  • why was mass important
    sacred ritual in which the whole community participated
  • where was the importance of the consecrated bread emphasised at
    the feast of Corpus Christi
  • what might lay people donate towards
    building of church
    foundations or chantries (chapels where masses of the dead took place)
  • why would people leave money to the church in their wills
    reduce time in purgatory
    enhance worship
    perpetuate money
  • what did a confraternity do
    collectively provided for funeral costs of members
    socialise
    maintain church fabric
  • example of popularity of confraternities
    small town of Salle in Norfolk had 7
  • what did the wealthier guilds do
    run schools, almshouses, maintained bridges, seawalls, roads
  • example of a guild paying for something
    Louth in Lincolnshire, built church spire
  • what was beating the bounds and what did it emphasise
    on rogationtide, pray for protection of parish against evil spirits, emphasised parish as key focus of local community
  • example of a pilgrimage site
    tomb of Thomas Beckett, Canterbury
  • hierarchy of religious orders
    monastic
    friars
    nuns
  • what percent of adult males were monks
    1%
  • how many monasteries were there
    900
  • name a monastic order who had large houses and where
    Benedictines - Durham
  • who did friars work among
    lay people
  • name some Friars
    Franciscans, Augustinians
  • what was happening to the importance of friars in the late 15th c
    declining
  • why were nunneris less prestigious than monasteries
    populated by women deemed unsuitable for marriage
  • name a wealthy nunnery
    Bridgettine Foundation at Syon
  • when did Lollardy emerge
    14th century
  • whose teachings created Lollardy
    John Wycliffe