Topic 9 Lesson 5: The Church and Medieval Culture

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 teaching.

• 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.

What is the 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

What is a university?

• 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

• greatly

What is natural law?

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

• to set up

• greatly

• order founded to fight heresy and to preach to ordinary people

What does it mean to establish something?

• to set up

• greatly

• order founded to fight heresy and to preach to ordinary people

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

What does dramatically mean?

• greatly

• 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