10-2 Guided Reading Activity - Christianity and Medieval Civilization

An interdict allows priests to give the sacraments to a specific group of people.

False. An interdict forbids priests from giving the sacraments to a specific group.

Men, but not women, were allowed to join religious order after 1050.

False. Both men and women joined religious orders in increasing numbers.

The experiences of Saint Francis of Assisi led him to become a merchant.

False. He was led to abandon all worldly goods and to live and preach in poverty.

The Church's desire to have a method of converting more people to Christianity led to the creation of a court called the Inquisition or Holy Office.

False. The Church's desire to have a method of discovering and dealing with heretics led to the Inquisition.

When a church official was given a ring and a staff, these objects symbolized a marriage to god and the responsibility of being a shepherd to his people.

False. These objects symbolized the spiritual authority that the official was granted by the church.

Medieval Christians stayed away from holy shrines as dangerous places.

False. They believed a pilgrimage to a holy shrine produced a spiritual benefit.

Most of the learned women of the Middle Ages, especially in Germany, were nuns.

True.

Relics were usually bones of saints or objects connected with the saints.

True.

Since the fifth century, the popes had been supreme over the affairs of the Church.

True.

The Cistercian order was founded in 1098 by a group of monks who were unhappy with the lack of discipline at their own Benedictine monastery.

True.

The struggle between Henry IV and Gregory VII dragged on until a new German king and a new pope reached an agreement in 1122 called the Concordant of Worms.

True.