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Medieval Religion
Religion in the medieval period is frequently depicted as a "time of ignorance and superstition," defying reason and logic. While Christianity and its denominations made up the majority of medieval religion, Germanic paganism and Islam also existed.
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What religion was practiced in Britain in the early middle ages?
In ancient times, the people of Britain were followers of the Roman pagan religion and Druidism. Christianity started early in Britain, and the first Christians were of the Celtic Christian Church. The English started to convert to Christianity in large numbers with the mission of St. Augustine of Canterbury, who was a Catholic. The Celtic and Catholic Churches, if they were ever truly separate, merged during the 8th century. Vikings brought in their own brand of paganism, and were eventually also converted to Christianity.
What is the role of a priest in the Church?
A priest is the person in church who tells you about God and Jesus and what happened when they were around. He is the person who leads everyone in the congregation or group of people in prayer. He is pretty much the main person in charge. He also has different names like father, priest, or pastor. If he is the priest in a Catholic Church, he is unable to get married, have children or anything like that because he is technically wed to the Church, and has taken a vow of celibacy in order to imitate Our Blessed Lord more closely.
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Catholic AnswerA priest is persona Christi in the Church. He is "another Christ". He is the arms and legs, mouth and ears for Our Blessed Lord in the Church. Thus when the priest celebrates Mass, he says, "This is my Body" and when he forgives sins he says, "I forgive you...." He is the one in the Church who offers the sacrifice - that has been the definition of a priest since ancient times: one who offers sacrifice. Like Our Blessed Lord, he is offering himself in sacrifice.What did a bishop do in the medieval times?
He had many responsibilities :
A bishop was a man who was in charge of the Christians of a certain city. All big cities in the ancient Roman Empire and Sassanian Empire and medieval Europe had bishops. . In the middle ages, bishop had many different activities in his everyday life. Bishops helped the king with getting army, and he also helped the people in his village (that included many peasants). They had luxurious clothing. They even taught at schools called cathedral and they made helped courts with trails. He also did stuff in the his church.
What does the Archbishop of York have to do with Thomas Becket's murder?
In Thomas Beckett's absence (he and the king were quarreling), Henry II had the Archbishop of York perform the pre-coronation of his heir, Henry (who died before his father). This was normally the job of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Beckett, and he was furious when he returned. Rather than letting bygones be bygones, Beckett excommunicated The Archbishop of York and threatened an interdict on England. Here is where Henry supposedly delivered his famous line, "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?"
Who had power during the Middle Ages and why?
The church had the most power in the middle ages because it was the one thing that united people.
Pope Innocent III placed the kingdom of England under an interdict for five years between 1208 and 1213 after King John (King of England, reigned from 6 April 1199 until his death) refused to accept the pope's appointee Stephen Langton as Archbishop of Canterbury. In November 1209, King John was excommunicated, and in February 1213, Innocent III threatened stronger measures unless King John submitted. The papal terms for submission were accepted in the presence of the papal legate Pandulph in May 1213; in addition, John offered to surrender the Kingdom of England to God and the Saints Peter and Paul for a feudal service of 1,000 marks annually, 700 for England and 300 for Ireland.
King John's 'Act of Vassalage' to the Pope. May 15, 1213, surrounded by Bishops, Barons, Knights and various Nobles of the Realm, King John took an oath of fealty to the Pope on his knees before Pandulph. The occasion was the surrender of the Crown to the Pope. King John then made his submission, in the House of the Knights Templar.
John, by the grace of God king of England, lord of Ireland, Duke of Normandy
"By this charter attested by our golden seal we wish it to be known to you all that...we offer and freely yield to God and to SS Peter and Paul...and to the Holy Roman Church our mother, and to our lord Pope Innocent III and his Catholic successors, the whole kingdom of England and the whole kingdom of Ireland with all their rights and appurtenences for the remission of our sins and the sins of our whole family.... And now, receiving back these kingdoms from God and the Roman Church, and holding them as a feudatory vassal...we have pledged and sworn our fealty hencefort to our lord aforesaid, Pope Innocent III...and we bind in perpetuity our successors and legitimate heirs that without question they must similarly render fealty and acknowledge homage to the Supreme Pontiff holding office at the time...
...in lieu of all service and payment which we should render for them [the fiefs], the Roman Church is to receive annually...one thousand marks sterling...."
The concordat of worms made this position one of the most powerful in the world?
The position of Pope of the holy Roman empire.
What vernacular language did people in the middle ages avoid writing in?
They didn't avoid writing because 90% of the population DIDN'T KNOW HOW to write. They couldn't read either.
How the Church assert control throughout the late Roman and medieval church?
How did the role of the church in society chage as Europe moved into the Renaissance?
The role of the church changed in a number of ways as the Middle Ages ended and the Renaissance progressed.
During the Middle Ages the Church worked, with some success, on freeing itself from controls imposed by monarchs. In the Renaissance, the Church in the North of Europe, especially England, was taken over by Protestants and came to be dominated by the states. In England, the Church lost most of its property, the monasteries closed, and the services, such as hospitals and schools, provided by the monasteries had to be provided by the government.
During the Middle Ages, there were crusades against heretics, but they were of short duration and were essentially military operations. The accompanying inquisitions were of limited scale. By contrast, the Church of the Renaissance came to try to control individuals far more than it had during the middle ages, with a great increase in the numbers and extent of inquisitions. The result of this was the introduction of witch hunts, which had not existed until about the time the Renaissance began, and attempts to control science, which was almost the reverse of the medieval approach. Where the condemnations of 1210-1277 had the effect of freeing scientists from doctrines imposed by scholars, the Church began to impose itself on such people as Galileo, dictating the meanings of his observations.
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Why was the medieval church so difficult to ignore?
The church was allowed to chant and make up music like monks in monasteries thats because i was there and saw it. So you know what i mean?
Pluscarden was originally a rather late Valliscaullian Priory built around 1230, funded by the Scottish king Alexander III. The major period of monastic foundations had been during the 1100s.
The Valliscaullians were a strange mixture of Carthusian austerity and Benedictine fellowship and moderation. They only existed in three monastic houses in Scotland. At the time of the Reformation in Scotland, Pluscarden fell into disuse and disrepair; it was only in 1948 that much of the site was rebuilt and re-established as a monastery, which remains in use today - it was elevated to Abbey status in 1974.
Why is it so hard to be a teenager Christian?
* Because there are so few of them, And religion requires almost too much discipline. Just do the best you can, If you do that it will suffice. * It is a hard thing for many Christian teenagers to grow up in this world! Today, more than ever, our culture is driven by sex, drugs, alcohol and most of all, bad decisions! I am young and recently became a Christian after many bad choices and situations experienced while growing up. Now that I have seen both sides of society, it is no wonder Christian teens have such a hard time!! All the non-Christian boys and girls look like they get to have all the fun! But fun is the last thing they have. I have been to the bottom and back and I have seen death, addictions, lies lies lies, cruelty beyond belief and so much sin it makes my head spin. For example, my new boyfriend is one of only two boys I have ever met in my life that decided to wait to have sex until marriage, and actually stuck to it! There is so much pressure among boys and girls now to "loosen up a little" or "just relax" in ways that are very unhealthy spiritually and mentally. I'll be honest. I lost my virginity to a non-Christian many years back who was and alcoholic and crack addict and at the time, felt like the coolest girl around. I was all grown up! Now, seeing my mistakes and still suffering all the abuse he put me through, I praise God and all the kids who choose to follow His path knowing that His is the only way. In a world of sin, fellow Christians, hold your place and show the world what our savior Jesus Christ would have been proud to see!
What would a priest say to a dying person in medieval times?
The service held for a dying person was variously called the Viaticum, the Extreme Unction or Last Rites. A priest would conduct the entire service in Latin, usually at the sickbed of the person in their own home. It was a lengthy service and involved the sick person or their relatives responding with "Amen" at various points.
The full text, in both Latin and in English translation, can be found via the link below:
What was the most famous and influential book of the middle ages?
This is a difficult question to answer as there have been many influential books on the nature of the Middle Ages. You may have more luck getting an answer by looking at the different schools of historical thought and deciding for yourself what is the most influential, and then from there deciding upon the most appropriate book. However it is subjective to your opinion.
One of the key books however would be Marc Bloch's 'The Royal Touch: Monarchy and Miracles in France and England' which approaches the royal power to heal scrofula in the middle ages. The methodology used to explore the theme therein is what made the book so ground-breaking: Bloch looks at the historical information from the ground up: "Why", he asks, "did people believe the kings could perform this miracle?" I'm paraphrasing of course, but the point is he was less interested in the high politics that previous historians had obsessed over, and was more interested in getting to grips with the social background of the period and the average person who lived in the Middle Ages. Historian's since have taken this, and ideas of other authors of the Annale school, into consideration in the decades since.
Hope that helps as a starting point!
What does brickenden mean as a surname?
It is an Old English place-name that has become a surname and changed form over time.
The place name was probably something like "woodland pasture belonging to the people of Bieda" - in Old English biedingden. This consists of the personal name Bieda, the -ing means "people of" and -den is an area of woodland cleared for farming.
There is a village in Kent (south-east England) called Biddenden which has the same origin; in earlier times its name was Bidingden. Brekynden is a late medieval form of this place-name, which would be used to identify people from the area:
John of Brekynden
Wat of Brekynden
and son on.
Eventually this became a surname and evolved into Brickenden.
How did most people react to the church's authority in the Medieval Times?
In some cases, the word of the Church was greater than the word of a noble. You wouldn't want to anger an institution that had more followers than a small kingdom.
AnswerMost people accepted the authority of the Church throughout medieval times.There were people who were heretics. For example the Cathars, who were numerous enough and organized enough that the Church launched the Albigensian Crusade against them.
There were individuals who opposed the Church for reasons of their own. King Henry II of England comes to mind. He wanted to increase his authority at the expense of the Church, and this made him run afoul of Thomas Becket. Ultimately Henry's knights killed Becket, and this caused Henry to lose both power and prestige, even though it was never alleged that he ordered the assassination.
Why were the monks and the bishops the only educated people in medieval times?
I would suggest looking for more information at the related question, "How were people educated in the middle ages?" Another related question might be of interest, "How were women educated in the middle ages?" Both of these questions have links for further study.
Was thomas becket buried at old st pauls?
The Archbishop, saint and martyr Thomas Becket was murdered at Canterbury Cathedral on 29 December 1170. His body, blood and part of his skull which had been struck off by a sword blow were collected together and placed in an empty stone coffin (which had been prepared for another burial). The coffin was lined with lead and sealed, which preserved the body within.
This coffin was hidden in various places around the cathedral over the next 50 years, until a magnificent shrine was erected in 1220 at the newly-rebuilt east end of the cathedral.
The shrine was huge and built around the stone coffin; there were holes for pilgrims to lean in and touch the coffin itself. Here St Thomas remained until in 1538 Henry VIII decided to obliterate the Catholic Church, its monasteries, nunneries and shrines throughout England.
It is recorded that 26 wagon loads of treasure were taken from the shrine of St Thomas; what happened to the body is not recorded, but there are several possibilities:
- the body was burned and the ashes scattered
- the body was hidden by monks before Henry's commissioners arrived, so the shrine was empty
- the body was replaced by another and hidden in a secret tomb within the cathedral - so the wrong body was burned
- the body was taken elsewhere and buried in secret
Since we have no proof for any of these theories, the fate of St Thomas' body is unknown, but he was certainly not buried at "Old St Paul's".
Where assassins in the medieval age?
There were people who killed people, but there was no job called "assassin". This is something that comes out of your games and not real life. If a king wanted to kill someone he sent a trusted man to do the job.
The only church in the middle ages was Catholic. The Catholic church taught that they were needed for man to communicate with God. They also taught that man was born in sin and to get to heaven they needed to go through the church. The Church set the standards and rules for the society as well as telling kings and queens how to rule.
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