History Vocab chapt
Terms
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- Thomas Aquinas
- an Italian scholar of philosophy and theology tried to build a bridge between reason and faith
- flying buttress
- a stone arch it spreaded the massive weight of the roof and walls more evenly
- Cantebury Tales
- a book written by Geoffrey chaucer about pilgrims as the tell the story to each other about St Thomas Becket
- friar
- a member of a certain religious order devoted to teaching and works of charity
- monasticism
- a way of life in which men and women withdraw form the rest of the world in order to devote themselves to fate
- rhetoric
- the study of persuasive writing and speaking
- nave
- an architectual design that was a long central section in a cathedral
- monastery
- a community of monks
- relic
- an object considered holy because it belonged to or was touched by a saint or other holy person
- pilgrimage
- a journey to a holy site
- gothic
- is a type of art form for churches that were designed to make the church look as if it was rising to heaven 1150- 1400
- Age Of Faith
- also known as the middle ages because christiain belief was so widespread 1000-1300
- university
- a school of advanced learning
- illuminated manuscript
- a handwritten book decorated with bright colors and precious metals
- dioceses
- is the land that a bishop ruled
- natural law
- the concept that there is a universal order built into nature that can guide moral thinking
- convent
- a community of nuns: also called a nunnery vow- chasity obedience poverty
- persecute
- to cause a person to suffer because of his or her beliefs
- mendicant
- a way of living a religious life and without the monastic orders
- nun
- a women who has taken a sacred vow to devote her life to prayer and to the church
- theology
- the study of god and religeous truth
- St Francis of Assisi
- he was born to wealthy italian family. Gave up his money to serve poor had respect for all living hthngs and lived a simple life
- excommunicate
- to formally deprive a person of membership in a church
- St. Benedict
- he developed monostic way of life in Western Europe
- religious order
- a brother hood of sisterhood of monks nuns or friars both franciscan and benedict
- monk
- a man who has take a solemn vow to devote his life to prayer and service in a monastery *vow- chasity obedience povery
- cathedral
- large churches headed by bishops
- sacrament
- a solemn rite of christian churches sacred rites- baptism euchairst confirmation penance matrimony holy order extreme unction
- clergy
- the body of people, such as priest who perform the sacred functions of the church
- gargoyle
- unique feature of gothic cathedrals they are stone sprouts projecting from rain gutters of roof