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Benson
The Church
11
History
9th Grade
02/29/2008

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Term

Middle Ages Church

(catholic)

Definition

1. Gave Hope

2. Biggest Land Owners

3. Courts and Goverment

4. Inns and Hospitals

Term
Monks and Nuns
Definition

Monks lived in Monasteries

Nuns lived in Convents/Nunnries

They  preserved Books

able to read and write

 

 

Term
Scribe
Definition
Someone who writes
Term
Script
Definition
  • Writting
Term
Scriptroium
Definition
  • Place where you write
Term
Iluminate/Ilummination
Definition
  • Light up, make it stand out
Term
Cathedrals
Definition
  • Comes from the word cathedra which means chair of the bishop
  • Built in the shape of a cross
  • High celings to look up to the Heavens
  • Sained Glass windows for decoration
  • Mazes and Labyrinths
Term
Flying buttresses
Definition
  • Cathedral Supports

 

Term
Relics
Definition
  • An old Artifact

 

Term
Excommunication
Definition
  • To cut off from the chcurch
Term
Scale of Indulgences
Definition
  • Earth
  • Purgatory
  • Heaven
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