The Church and Medieval Culture

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Mendicant Order

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Order founded to fight heresy and to preach to ordinary people.

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University

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School, or group of schools, that trains scholars at the highest levels.

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Natural Law

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Idea that there are laws in nature that are basic to both the natural world and human affairs.

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Establish

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To set up.

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Dramatically

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Greatly.

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The Franciscans were known as a mendicant order because they

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Did not own property.

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The first medieval universities grew out of schools attached to: monasteries, castles, manors, cathedrals.

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cathedrals.

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Thomas Aquinas believed that natural law

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did not change.

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Mystery plays were popular entertainments based on

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Bible stories.

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What was one way that Gothic cathedrals differed from churches of the early Middle Ages? Options: They had thicker walls., They had larger windows., They had lower ceilings., They had simpler decorations.

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They had larger windows.