RLG349H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Middle Ages, Life Insurance
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Lecture 3: mcguire: the cloister & the world. The success of the monastic movement is both devotion to god and. These ideals end up being the standards tat society inherently expects. The ideal form of christianity in that era. Even with christianity, it"s a movement which is always undergoing (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) changes. (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) monasticism. (cid:1) from the monks and nuns. They intended to live a life of purity while developing a relationship (cid:1) with god, this allowed the person to gain credit with god. Any good deed was worthy of reward or merit, which could be transferred. (cid:1) Mass was a way to give thank or to prevent god from being angry. (cid:1) Communion was used for all special concerns and needs that people had, and this was the spiritual commodity they sold to the society. (cid:1) They were not in accordance with (cid:1) normal mass.
