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this time, the church was central in every day life. Clergy: Church officials, and their teachings were influential in European culture and politics.
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gained power
When people would die, some would leave land to the church The church would divide the land in fiefs, making the church feudal lords. Bishops were involved in politics by being advisers to local rulers
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back, how can the church being involved in politics, cause problems?
Church was gaining power & some of it, was bad, and in Cluny that changed the way monks lived, only focusing on religious matters. Established a new order: Cluniac monks
Cluny order paved the way, but some thought they were not strict enough. Some created orders with stricter rules and some took vows of silence. Women also were allowed to join, known as nuns and lived in convents.
The Friars
Friars:
People who belonged to religious orders but lived and worked amongst the people. In 1200s religious orders came about
were the first schools, and the clergy were the teachers First taught religion, but they also taught law, medicine, and astronomy All was taught in Latin.
As
people were educated, people wondered how human reason and religion were related.
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person was a Dominican philosopher Thomas Aquinas, prof. at the Univ. of Paris. He believed in natural law: a law that governed how the world operated
Natural law theory attempts to define a higher law on the foundation of a universal understanding that certain choices in human life are good or evil, or that certain human actions are right or wrong.
known as Gothic
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