middle ages catholic church

Was the Catholic church a positive or negative factor with regard to the developement of music in the Middle Ages?
Did music develope because of the help of the church or in spite of its interference

Gosh. I wonder what all those sung masses were about? The church sustained many composers by commissioning works from them. It was one of the major patrons of composers and musicians in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

There was a little hiccup at the Council of Trent, when ecclesiastical music may have been banned, but Palestrina saved the day by writing music that could also be understood as a mass. Gregorian chant had developed to the point that the actual words could not be identified.

2007-11-07 19:41:12 by ♥I_rock_you♥

This is Mr. Zoller#39;s social studies video podcast on the subject of the Medieval Christian Church.

During the Middle Ages, the Roman Catholic Church was the most powerful religion. The majority of Europe during this time was Catholic. Most Catholics refer to this time as the "Age of Faith". I preferably call it the "Age of Ignorance". Why was the Roman Catholic Church so powerful during these times? What caused it to become this way all throughout Europe?

The Middle Ages are commonly dated from the fall of the Western Roman Empire (or by some scholars, before that) in the 5th century to the beginning of the Early Modern Period in the 16th century. In central Europe is was the only major Christian Church in existence that still exists today. This period was before the reformation so the only other major Christian Church was the Orthodox Church. Both of these Churches go back to the beginning. The Protestant reformation and the new theologies had not been invented yet.

2008-08-27 08:15:56 by Michael G

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2. During the High Middle Ages, Western European governments and the Catholic Church came into conflict more than once. Analyze at least two incidents of church-state confrontation, giving as many relevant details as possible. Who were the people involved in each case, what were the issues, and who, in your opinion, came out the winner in each confrontation?

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Look up The great church scism, 14th century. There were two popes elected at one time. Countries had to choose one or the other. Then the rejected pope would excommunicate everyone against them. It added fuel to the fire of the hundred years between england and france.

And obviously King Henry II in the 1100s "who will rid me of this turbulent priest?" Thomas Becket was killed due to his insistence that the church had the authority of interfere in state matters.

2007-12-12 14:28:30 by Srewsna Oohay

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The Middle Ages were an enchanted period and religious experience: its people lived in a world inhabited by saints, demons and angels. How did the people understood their world, their relationship with God, and how the Catholic church fostered this belief, and positioned itself as the ultimate protector and source of the true faith.

- if someone can help me find this answer over the internet, or tell me directly this answer - I would appreciate it. This is a study question for my midterm from my class. My book did not have a clear answer and I thought I might ask for help.

Thanks!

To humbly add to Lizzie..

She is completely right... the internet is a great source of information but to walk into the library you find a wealth of information and the knowledge of the people there too.

Give me a bookstore and coffee anyday.

To add though... "How people thought" they would rely heavy on their clergy/elders to tell them what they needed to know. Simple in thought... worked hard everyday.. etc...

You answered your own question... "how the Catholic church fostered this belief, and positioned itself as the ultimate protector and source of the true faith."

Most of the text was in Latin... the church held the keys to understanding it. so..... again.. you went to them.

2008-02-19 11:06:51 by The Thinker

I know obviously catholic is still a big thing today, but like when did the Catholic church lose power in government?
I'm doing an essay and I'm just confused about this part! I've done lots of research but i don't really know what to look for. thanks!

No. The Church had a great deal of influence in medieval Europe,not least through its monopoly on installing bishops, abbots, and other powerful offices. There were a number of points in the medieval period in which the 'secular' state attempted to assert its independence of Church control - the most famous, I suppose, being the papal investiture contest in the 11th century, in which Emperor Henry IV attempted to assert his independence of the Pope. Later in the medieval period, thinkers like William of Ockham and Marsilius of Padua attempted to assert that the power of kings and emperors was not dependent upon the blessing of the Church. However, generally medieval thinkers tended to insist that all secular power derived ultimately from the Pope, and the Church exercised considerable influence at a local level, where it was a major landowner and a major force. Of course, the influence was not all one-way: kings and local magnates could influence the Church enormously, and at periods of papal weakness (especially in the period of the fourteenth-century schism) kings could create and depose popes. Indeed, it was this late-medieval crisis of the papacy which led late-medieval thinkers to attempt to extricate secular from sacred power.

The influence of the Church only began to be rolled back at the Reformation, a process which continued until the 19th century. It was the influence of Enlightenment philosophy, above all, which argued that religion should be confined to the private sphere.

2009-04-22 14:08:04 by asdfghjkl