The Church and Medieval Culture

Mendicant Order

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

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

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

• To set up.

University

• To set up.

• Greatly.

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

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

Natural Law

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

• To set up.

• Greatly.

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

Establish

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

• Greatly.

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

• To set up.

Dramatically

• Greatly.

• To set up.

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

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

The Franciscans were known as a mendicant order because they

• Did not own property.

• Lived in wealthy monasteries.

• Cut off contact with the outside world.

• Cared about all living creatures.

The first medieval universities grew out of schools attached to

• monasteries.

• castles.

• manors.

• cathedrals.

Thomas Aquinas believed that natural law

• violated Church teachings.

• was unknowable.

• did not change.

• could only be understood through faith.

Mystery plays were popular entertainments based on

• Roman myths.

• Greek learning.

• Tales of Chivalry.

• Bible stories.

What was one way that Gothic cathedrals differed from churches of the early Middle Ages?

• They had thicker walls.

• They had larger windows.

• They had lower ceilings.

• They had simpler decorations.