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The Church's Power Amidst Rising Towns and Literacy

This educational activity explores how the Church maintained its power during the rise of towns and increased literacy rates. Students will analyze key texts and lectures to understand the Church's influence, particularly in relation to three major abuses of power that reformers sought to change: clerical marriages, simony, and lay investitures. Students will also examine the significance of Gothic architecture and its features, such as pointed arches and stained glass. The session will cover important concepts like excommunication, interdict, canon law, and the Church’s social services.

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The Church's Power Amidst Rising Towns and Literacy

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  1. Objective: • To use the classroom resource text and identify how during the rise of towns and literacy rates, the Church was able to maintain power. You will take notes from the text and lectures during this activity.

  2. The Church & The Power! Identify 3 abuses of power the Church reformers wanted to end. Describe Gothic architecture and explain its significance.

  3. Answers: • 1. Clerical marriages, simony, lay investitures. Why did reformers see lay investiture as a major threat to the Church? 2. Pointed arches, flying buttresses, and ribbed vaults-enable Gothic architects to achieve height and light, Stain glass windows illustrate bible stories. Why?

  4. Excommunication and the interdict were great punishments, explain them, what saved people from them? What law partly governed Christians, what did it abide over? How do you feel about this?

  5. Answers: • Excommunication-banned from church • Interdict-no church ceremonies performed in excommunicated rulers land • Only sacraments & repentance could save from both • Who were the curia and legates? • Cannon law-marriage, divorce, wills • What is a tithe? What is a relic?

  6. Curia- Pope’s staff, supplied him with information, offered advice, and carried out decisions. • Legate- Pope’s diplomats who traveled through Europe dealing with bishops and kings. • Tithe-1/10th of yearly income to church • Relic-sacred

  7. Good works of the Church • What social services did the church provide? • What is a heretic? What happened to them—what is the inquisition?

  8. Social Services = 1/4th of tithes to help sick and poor. Funds for orphans, beggars and lepers. Hospitals • Heretic- beliefs that differ from church. Heretics got questioned for weeks, tortured, impossible to prove innocence. • Inquisition-an organization of experts whose job was to find and judge heretics. 1225 Pope sent them around Europe. (gossip and rumors accepted as evidence)

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