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The Middle Ages: 500-1450 C.E. Origins of The Modern World: Find Picture
The Middle Ages: 500-1450 C.E. Origins of The Modern World: Find Picture
The Middle Ages: 500-1450 C.E. Origins of The Modern World: Find Picture
FIND PICTURE
-Care of sick,
poor, aged,
widows,
orphans
-Education
-Maintaining
knowledge
/copying books
-Political
Advisors
Beaulieu, England- English monastery
Illuminated
manuscript
*Economic Aspects of
the Church
Church as landowner
(Cistercians as one example):
-They own extensive lands,
produce wine, wool, grain
and also engage in mining,
for the market
-They use serf labour
*The Church is a highly
organized structure that
competes with the secular
rulers for power