II. New Religious Orders
A. In the late 1000s and early 1100s, a wave of
enthusiasm led
to a rise in monasteries and monastic
B. The
order of monks was one of the first to take their religion
to people outside the monastery.
C. The abbess
was an important contributor to a type of music
known as
chant.
monks preached simplicity, took vows of poverty, and aided
the poor, while
also lived in poverty and battled
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D.
E. The Church's
sometimes used
extract confessions of heresy and used executions to punish it.
III. Religion in the High Middle Ages
A. In the Middle Ages, the Church played a large role in everyday life; the
_guided people from birth to death, and included baptism, the
Eucharist, and marriage.
B. Medieval Christians dedicated churches to
and venerated
-, objects connected with saints.
C. Christians also made
to shrines, the greatest of which, they
believed, was the Holy City of