4.3 Within the abbey walls

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The Middle Ages

4.3 Within the abbey walls

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Learning goal

Goal 3: You can explain how the

Christian faith spread across

Europe

What do we remember about the feudal system and the manorial system?

What's the difference between the feudal system and manorial system?

Feudal system

Manorial system

Serfs 

Liege man

Domain

Liege Lord

Farmers were not free

Way to govern the land

4.3 Within the abbey walls

Goal 3: You can explain how the

Christian faith spread across

Europe

Extra goal: you know what monasterys are and what their function was during the Middle Ages.

Dictionary

Look up the words:

Doctrine:

Missionaries:

Administer

coincided

laity

PIF

write these words down in your Personal Idioms File (PIF)

Leave some space underneath each word. At home I want you to think about a sentence in which you can use the word you wrote down.

Church fathers

Fourth/ fifth century: chritianity spread troughout the Roman Empire, it was gradually established by the Church Fathers: these were people who wrote the doctrine of the christian church:

Example: Augustine: proved in his book that the christians were not to blame for the falling of Rome and that if you lived a good life you would go to heaven.

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Christianization

Christianization = the spread of Christianity

Germanic peoples converted to Christianity, they became Catholics: part of Christianity that obeys the Pope.

Kings and nobles often converted because of support of the powerful bishops + used the help of the clergy to administer the kingdom.

Clergy: priests, friars and monks

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Christianization (2)

Clovis + nobles converted to christianity -> subjects followed their example.

Missionaries like Willibrord and Boniface were sent from England to convert the Frisians and Saxons, lot of resistance -> Boniface was murdered at Dokkum for instance.

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Why was the bond between the church and the state very close in the Roman Empire?

Kings helped protect the church, what did the clergy do in return?

Does the government nowadays still interferes with people's religious believes? what do you think? explain your answer.

Monks and nuns

Read the text: Monks and nuns in your coursebook (p. 78) Discuss it with the classmate sitting next to you and answer the questions. Write both the questions and answers down in your notebook.

1. Why did monks and nuns live in a monastery/ abbey?
2. What function did an abbey have?
3. What is an abbot?
4. What did monks and nuns do all day?

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Monks and nuns

Monks and nuns lived in an abbey or monastery:

• Devoted themselves to god
• vow of chasity and obedience
• Spend their time praying and working (also copying books)

Abbeys were also a centre of knowledge + owned vast domains

Abbot: head of a abbey.

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Hierarchy Middle ages

Society was devided into three estates (= standen) 

1. Clergy

2. Nobility

3. the rest

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Copy this piramyd about hierarchy of the middle ages in your notebook.

Excersize

Read the text in the following slide and answer the questions about it.

Read the text: 'The christianization of the Frisians and Saxons'. discuss with a fellow classmate and answer these 2 questions:
1. Who made sure that saxons eventually became Christians?
2. Who made sure that the Frisians eventually became Christians?

Explain how the
Christian faith spread across
Europe

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