REL 231 - History of the Christian Church
Study Topics and Assignments
Week 8 - The High Middle Ages
AD 1,000 - 1,450
Textbook Readings and Class Notes
- Chapter 7, pages 182-219
- Notes for Week 8
- The Spread of the Black Death
InterNet Resources
- InterNet Links for Week 8
- Useful articles can be found by using GoodSearch
- You may use Wikipedia to give a lead to other sources and material, but you should not use it as a main source - Do not quote from it
This Week's Assignment : Twenty Questions
Please write a paragraph on each of the following topics.
For some of these you may have to consult sources beyond the textbook.
A paragraph should contain at least three sentences and be three to ten lines in length
- Your choice :
- The Monastery of Cluny and the Cluniac Movement, or
- The Carthusian Order
- Bernard of Clairvaux and the Cistercian Order
- Francis of Assissi and the Franciscans
- Dominic and the Dominicans
- Anselm of Canterbury
- Abelard and Heloise
- The Growth of Universities
- Thomas Aquinas
- The Gothic Cathedral - Either choose one particular cathedral and describe it, or discuss the development of Cathedrals in general during this period
- The Great Schism between the Eastern and Western Churches
- The First Crusade
- The Second Crusade
- The Fourth Crusade and the Fall of Constantinople to the Crusaders in 1202 - You will probably have to go beyond the textbook for information for this question
- Your choice :
- The Hospitalers
- The Teutonic Knights, or
- The Templars
- Your choice :
- Peter Waldo and the Waldensians, or
- The Cathars
- The Inquisition
- The Black Death and its consequences
- The Great Schism of the Western Church (the Avignon papacy)
- John Wycliffe and the Lollards
- Jan Hus and the Hussites - You will probably have to go beyond the textbook for information for this question
Remember to cite your sources
Use MSWord or a text editor such as Notepad to prepare and save your work, then submit it as one document to Turnitin via the Blackboard link
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