Medieval Eschatology Research Paper

Meaning and significance of death in the light of the Christian narrative is addressed including adequate detail.

Abstract The author’s perception and treatment of Everyman are that each individual need to prepare for it by repenting, following God, and doing good works. The author’s perception is that at the end of the day one cannot take anything or anyone with them when they die. The only entity someone can take is their actions and how they use the resources that are given to them. Those who put God before everything and perform good works will enjoy eternity with Him, but those who enjoy only the pleasures of life and forget God, will not. The author’s main message throughout the play is to not fearful of death but know that one day everyone will die, so do as much good as one can, repent of one’s sins, and to put God first. Keywords: author, perception, treatment, death The Author’s Perception and Treatment of Death in Everyman In the late fifteenth century, an unknown author wrote a morality play called Everyman. According to Pearson, a morality play during the Medieval period would communicate a moral lesson and make it so simple that both illiterate and well-educated audiences could both understand the lesson (Adu-Gyamfi, 2016). One may believe that the author of Everyman want to communicate to the audience that everyone will receive judgment the actions they commit on Earth. The author’s perception of death is that God is the only one who has the power to control when each individual die, so if one has a relationship with Him one should not be fearful death. The author

A virulent plague consumed millions of corpses; war raged on for multiple generations, and famine struck an overpopulated Europe. Even as many tragedies befell the European people, the crisis of fourteenth century eventually proved itself to be a blessing in disguise, albeit a very lethal one. The first hardship, the Little Ice Age, afflicted northern Europe in 1315 and reached the south by 1347, creating a dearth of food. The Black Death then wiped out a third of European inhabitants in the middle of the century. Many wars erupted, but the Hundred Years War between England and France resulted in the most deaths and caused heavy taxation for these countries from 1337 to 1452. The Ottoman Turks began to attack European settlements in the east,

During the First Crusades, war was a popular topic. People wanted to conquer lands and only under their religion. There were different outlooks on the wars. The people killing other people for their land did it happily, while the people being killed were unfairly obviously had a very poor outlook on the activities. When the Franks entered the city of Jerusalem, things did happen there that will not be forgotten by either side.

Although a topic of my past history classes has been the Crusades, I only came out of them with a vague understanding of the situation. Due to time constraints, hearing lectures from my high school History teacher, Mr. Apol, and reading Glencoe Word History provided me with a brief overview, rather than a complete understanding. So, I sought out to gain greater knowledge through the vision of the question, "Was the first crusade a success, and if so, what made it a success?" Since the peasants' crusade produced the rest of the crusades, historians ought to pay more attention to it. Using The Crusades: A Reader, I will make a decision based on specific occurrences and their ultimate goal.1 In order to do this, I will pick out important aspects

One of the most frequently debated topics in today’s society is the afterlife. This is topic is so intriguing because it is impossible for one to truly know the destination of our souls after death. A destination after death has been debated since the beginning of time. Some of its earliest examples of this are pieces of literature such as The Iliad where Homer wrote of an Underworld. By examining the common beliefs about the afterlife of different societies and times, we can also obtain a clearer idea of the common beliefs on religion and politics.

The Third Crusade was one of many medieval crusades to besiege the Holy Land in the 12th century. The purpose of the Third Crusade, like all the previous crusades, was to reconquer the Holy Land, an area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea that included Jerusalem, which was considered holy by both Christians, Jews, and Muslims. Jerusalem was considered holy and important to Christians because it was the home of Jesus’ ministry. The Third Crusade, led by King Philip II, Richard I, and German Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, sought to recapture the Holy Land and Jerusalem from Saladin’s Muslim forces and make up for the losses suffered in the Second Crusade. But, while all these rulers had an impact on the Third Crusades somewhat success, Richard I (Richard the Lionheart) contributed and impacted the Crusade the most with his exceptional military skill and

A major theological problem exist as it related to Christ descending into hell to take the keys of death. Although the Apostle’s Creed points out that Jesus descended down into hel, His descent was not about suffering, but about a triumph victory over Satan. In order to ascertain the truth behind the afterlife, the validity of hell has to be established.

INTRODUCTION The Medieval Inquisition was founded in 1184 C.E, first as the Episcopal Inquisition (1184-1230s C.E) as the militant and judicial response to popular mass of religious movements against the tyranny and corruption of the popes and their bishops in the Catholicized Western Europe. The most challenging neo-Manichean movements against the dictatorship of the Pope of Rome were Catharism and Waldensians in Southern France and northern Italy in the 1140s C.E. and the Waldensians in the 1170s C.E. The inquisition was one of the most powerful and polemical institutions used by Roman Catholic Church to eliminate heresy and protect the unity of Christendom.

To combat the fear of nothingness after death, religion focused on the idea of an afterlife. Undeniably, the idea of life after death is the largest reason why religion is as popular as is remains in today’s society. Reading Augustine’s confession present an interesting outside view on how the relationship with religion can be helpful for people when dealing with death. Seeing the extreme difference in his behavior when coping with the death of his mother compared to his friend really showcases how having religion in a person’s life effects how they view

Purgatory has been an important aspect of organized religion from the early days of the church until now, but never more controversial then during the time of the protestant reformation.

A third theme is about importance of afterlife in the medieval time. God was everywhere with his grace man be born, he lives for him, trying at all costs to win his favor asceticism and fulfilling orders of the Decalogue, with his finally die to get eternal reward for a life of renunciation. The man was subordinated to God, worshiping him and acknowledge the superiority of the spiritual over the temporal goods. At that time, the relationship between God and man was simple and unambiguous. God was perfection, which sought in his earthly journey man tried to so live and die like best, so as to get closer to God and eternal life. The man knew the purpose of his life and tried to fill it as best he could. The unchanging teaching of the Church is

Purgatory can be identified as a process of purification after death for those who are saved. For the souls who desire to enter into God’s holy kingdom in heaven, it is necessary to be cleansed by entering through purgatory. There has been much speculation about this doctrine, because like many other things, we are left with many questions. There is much debate about the time it can take for one to go through purgatory. However, it is argued that the pains of hell cannot compare to the oaisn of hell (Akin 386). With purgatory there is hope that the pain will end and the suffering will be worth it.

During the times of the Ancient Romans, Epicureans and Stoics it was understood that death and the disposal of the body were vitally important to all beliefs, these views on death also display the contrasting portrayals of each ideology as to how the deceased were handled and the influential theories revolving around death.

Cosmology is a branch of philosophy that concerns the origin and structure of the universe (Merriam-Webster, 2017). In Medieval society the Church had an integral part in dictating the popular cosmology of the time, the beliefs of Christianity heavily informing the general population’s perception of the nature of their world. One of the most impactful teachings of the Church in medieval cosmology was the Christian understanding of the afterlife, wherein it was taught that life and death are inextricably linked, the barrier between the realms of the living and the dead being inconstant and unpredictable for spirits to pass between. Thus the people of medieval society across all levels of the feudal hierarchy informed their decisions in strict