4.3 Verspreiding van het Christendom

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Religion in the Middle Ages

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A Christian culture

* Married, baptized and buried

* Sundays and Christian festival days -> no work

* Heaven

* Hel

Monasteries

* Monks and nuns

* Spread christianity

* Studied and copied books

* Cared for travellers

* Trained priests

* Education and caring for the sick

Priests

* Church

* Contact with god

* Unmarried men

* Holy Commmunion -> wine and bread 

* Reminding Jesus had died for them

Nature gods

* Germany

* Thor -> god of thunder and weather

* Worshipped stones, holy trees and water sources

* Heathens

Heathens

* Missionaries (Priests who spread christianity)

* Convert heathens

* Charles the Great-> King

Reaction heathens

* Not succesful

* Heathens festivals were linked to Christian events

* Mid-winter festival -> Christmas

* 1000 Almost everyone in Western Europe was Christian

Assignments

Make the assignments of paragraph 4.3

Assignments

Make the assignments of paragraph 4.3