history- tudor- S1, 1.2

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  • Section 1: 1.2 Popular piety and the Church's spiritual role
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    • the church in 1529
    • the Church's spiritual role
      • link between God and human beings
      • churchwardens able to read and write
      • life of the agricultural community and the church year fitted well together
      • feast days & holy days were celebrated- community would not work
    • Lay religious guilds
      • the wealthy financed the building of personal chantry chapels
      • some joined guilds- provided a chapel and priest for regular prayers for the dead
        • provided a funeral
      • also fraternities for men & women
      • guilds played a part in relig. festivals
        • Corpus Christi
      • provided financial benefits
      • strict moral code- attendance required at all masses and funerals of other members
    • Heaven, hell and purgatory
      • sinners, with original sin
      • purgatory- for judgement
        • reduced time in purgatory- earning indulgences
          • pilgrimages, relics etc.
            • Thomas Becket shrine at canterbury
            • pilgrimages- seek cures for disease
        • masses for souls reduced time there
          • in Latin
      • heaven was main goal
      • Heaven: paradise for eternity
      • Hell: torment, devil, inferno
      • good works
        • gifts to church
        • pilgrimages
        • prayers for dead
        • helping poorr
      • heaven through faith / good works is salvation or justification
    • the Seven Sacraments
      • key to Cath. faith
      • took place from birth to death
      • most important sacrament was mass
        • transubstantiation
    • role of the priesthood
      • priest central to spiritual lives of church members
      • representative of God on earth
      • priest central to forgiving sins
        • confession
      • only priest can perform baptism, marriage and last rites
      • population relied on priest to interpret word of God
      • educated
    • importance of printing
      • growth of literacy under nobility
        • increase in grammar schools
      • increased literacy encouraged growth of printing press
        • more books
          • relig. books v. popular - inc. Bible
          • books imported from continent
          • narratives, eg. Canterbury Tales

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