Study Guidelines - Middle Ages

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UNIT 4: MIDDLE AGES STUDY GUIDELINES

Big Questions for


this unit
1. What is the significance
of the religious life?
What role did monks
play in Middle Ages?
2. What should the
relationship be between
church and state?
3. How should we respond
to corruption in the
Some of the things we will be looking Church?
4. Should the Middle Ages
into: be called the Dark
Ages?
- Early forms of religious life (desert fathers and 5. BONUS: Were the
mothers)
Crusades justified?
- Political influence of the Church
- Barbarian invasions and their impact on society
- Social services provided by Church
- Charlemagne’s Frankish Empire
- Clashes between church and state
- Reforms of Gregory VII
- The Great Schism (Orthodox and Catholic)
- Lives and impact of certain Saints
- The Crusades

Assessments for this unit:

1. Quizzes on the items listed above.


2. Essay on church-state relationship
3. Seminar on monasticism in Middle Ages
4. Debate on whether the Middle Ages should
be called the Dark Ages
5. Mock Trial and Seminar on the Crusades
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