Medieval Church Essay

Medieval Morality Plays Throughout time, there have been many books, plays, songs, pamphlets, sermons, lectures, etc. written. These writings were all written with some kind of purpose to either inform, persuade, entertain, or teach their audience. One such form of literature not too widely known about is that of the medieval morality plays. These plays were not aimed to entertain, but to teach morals and religion to the uneducated lower classes of people in medieval Europe. The morality plays

discuss the effects The Black Death had on Medieval society as well as evaluating the responses. The Black Death arrived in 1348 from China to kill perhaps half of the population of Europe. When the plague arrived, people believed it to be a punishment of God. Many turned to the priests and bishops but they could not offer a cure, the Catholic Church lost a lot of its influence

Women did not make near as much and were treated with disrespect unless they were working in a upper class job. The Catholic church provided various jobs to many people. With the church came jobs such as bishops, priest, monks and nuns. Monks and nuns had jobs such as cook’s, barbers and scribes are a few examples of some of the religious occupations the catholic church provided for both men and women. During the Middle Ages there were lots of wars which opened jobs such as knights, squires, bowyers

spread throughout Asia on trading routes such as the Silk Road (Extra, 2011). 30% of the people in Medieval Europe were died as a result of the Plague. This led to shortages in labour for landowners and increased demand for labour by nobles and landowners. These shortages got to the point where landowners

Raymond Focus Question : Why did the Black Death have such a devastating impact on Europe in the Middle Ages? The Black Death, or as it was called in the medieval period, “the blue sickness” was a disease of three types that attacked humans through rodents, animals and human contact. It was first brought by the Mongols, who traveled by sea. From there, it was most likely carried by animals and/or fleas that were on the ships. It spread all over Europe in three forms, the bubonic plague, which created

A Gruesome Killer in Medieval Times Imagine a disease, that spread fast and killed faster; it was described by an Italian author in the 14th century, Boccaccio, that victims of the plague "'ate lunch with their friends and dinner with their ancestors in paradise'" (Ross 51). This disease was the Black Plague, a terrible epidemic, which ignited fear in all of Europe's people. The disease started with infected rats, which were everywhere in the overcrowded towns and cities of England. The Black

During medieval times, women were not placed on a high pedestal; in fact, some religious institutions at the time felt women were in almost every instance the weaker sex. Misogyny abounded during these times. Quite often than not, women played a very minimized role in medieval literature. The pattern was the same: either they were a helpless damsel in need of a knight in shining armor with his trusty stead or they were portrayed as being sexually promiscuous with multiple men which stoked the fire

built upon inequalities. Feudalism resulted in a consequential hierarchy in which each level had a role that directly benefitted the entire society. Not only enforced by the people, feudalism was enforced by their religion of Christianity; the Medieval Church advocating for the belief that humanity was born unequal, kings justly superior to peasants, a reminder for every individual to know their place. King John, a man whose desires for power led to his own ruin, would be known as the king whose actions

lighting (Gray, 319). This is just one of many stories that were created during the Medieval Period in Europe depicting the act of abortion in a negative way. A majority of these stories surround the idea of God and what is “morally right” in the Christian religious society. Therefore, most scholars analyze these short stories from a religious point of view, and how these were an advantage to the Christian church in the means of declining the act of abortion. However, the debate on why these stories

“Medieval motets tended to be isorhythmic; that is, they employed repeated rhythmic patterns in all voices—not only the cantus firmus—which did not necessarily coincide with repeating melodic patterns.”2 This new isorhythmic principle, brought on mostly by