Later Middle Ages

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Christianity and medieval society

• By Brittaney Hamm!!! ?

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The church shaped politics and society

• Clergy- Church officials, Their teachings were
  very influential in European culture and
  politics.
• Society- Life revolved around the local church.
  Markets, festivals, and religious ceremonies took
  place there.
• Politics- The church also gained political power
  in the middle ages. Many people left land to the
  church when they died.

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Monks and Friars
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The monks of Cluny

• Religious order- A group of people who dedicated
  their lives to religion and followed common
  rules.
• Living apart from society-Most monks lived apart
  from the society.

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New Orders

• Some monks thought that even Clunys rules
  werent strict enough. Women created their own
  religious communities in convents.

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Friars

• Francis of Assisi- founder of the Franciscan.
• Friars- Members of the religious orders who lived
  and worked among the general public.
• Living within society- Friars lived in society.

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Thomas Aquinas

• Philosopher who showed how religious faith and
  reason could co-exist. Wrote a reasoned argument
  for the existence of God.
• Natural Law-Thomas Aquinas concept that god
  created a law that governed how the world
  operated. To show how god had ordered the world.

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Natural law

• Law- Thomas Aquinass concept that God created
  law that governed how the world operated.

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The church and their arts
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Religious Architectural

• The great Gothic cathedrals of late medieval
  Europe are among the most beautiful of all
  architectural achievements.

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Religious art

• Their spires and high ceilings and colorful
  stained glass windows are all designed to bring
  people closer to God.

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Magna carta causes changes in England
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Magna carta

• Document written by English nobles and signed by
  King John listing rights the king could not
  ignore.

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Who demanded this agreement?

• In 1215 a group of English nobles decided to
  force the king to repect their rights. They made
  king John approve a document listing rights the
  king could not ignore.

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The effects of magna carta
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What were the effects of magna carta

• The magna carta led more changes. Faced with
  war and financial troubles, the kings turned to a
  council of nobles for advice and money.

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The three of the demands and why they are
important

• Before long, the council developed into
  Parliament, the lawmaking body that still governs
  England today.

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The changes after Magna carta
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What did magna carta inspire the nobles to do

• Nobles- Created to advise the king. Developed
  into a parliament, the law making body that
  governs England today.

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Parliament

• Lawmaking body that governs England.

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How did the king limit magna carta

• The king couldnt do anything without the support
  of the parliament.

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100 years of war
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The course of the war
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A French king dies with no heirs

• In Europe, kings were not giving up their power
  easily, but other events forced political change.

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Two men claimed throne

• One was French and the other was a king of
  England.

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English take the lead

• The war started when the English king tired to
  take control of France's throne.

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Joan of arc

• Teenage peasant girl who rallied the French
  troops and turned the tide of the Hundred years
  of war.

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Results of the war
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Changes in England

• In England, Parliaments power grew because the
  king needed parliaments approval to raise money
  to pay for the costly war.
• As parliament gained more influence, the king
  lost power.

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Changes in France

• In France, on the other hand, the kings power
  grew. During the war, the king had become popular
  with his nobles.
• Fighting the English had created a bond between
  them.
• As a result, the nobles supported the king after
  the war as well.

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Democracy in France will have to wait

• The Democracy in France had to wait because the
  kings power grew.

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Black Death
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Where it came from

• Origin- The plague originally came from central
  and eastern asia.

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How it spread

• The spread- Traders unknowingly brought rats
  carrying the disease to medirditerrian ports.
  From there it quickly swept throughout much of
  Europe.

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What disease was it

• Bubonic plague could be identified by swellings
  called buboes that appeared on victims bodies.

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Effect on manor life and feudalism/ how many died

• Black death killed so many people that many were
  buried quickly without priests or ceremonies.
• How many people died? Well in some villages
  nearly everyone died or fled as neighbors fell
  ill. In England alone, about 1000 villages were
  abandoned.

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What happened to it

• Once they had money, many fled their manors
  completely, moving instead to Europe's growing
  cities.