Highlight- Middle Ages Flashcards
What is pomp and circumstance mean
beginning of impressive formal activities and ceremonies
People had more of a selection of what during this time
Funeral goods
Where was a popular place people wanted to be buried during this time?
in/around their church.. churchyard cemeteries
What led to overcrowding of cemeteries during this time and what eventually was conducted?
Plague and mass deaths, and mass burials were conducted
Why was “the burial in woolen act” formed and when?
Shortage of fine linens in 1666
What was developed during this period
Burial clubs and guilds
What was continued from the Hebrew influence to prevent premature burials
Wakes
A person who took unto themselves the sins of the dead by eating bread and drinking beer
Sin-eater
Took care of the tasks in and around the churches
Church Sextons
Who were introduced during this period?
Surgeons and anatomists
What was needed for use by anatomists
Cadavers
Where was Alexander the Great shipped and in what?
Macedonia and in honey
a decorated platform that supports a coffin
catafalque
The simplicity that characterized the churchs primitive burial practices gave way to an imposing dignity that better expressed its importance and that of certain of its members. the dead were brought to church where a requiem of mass was said or sung
funeral practices Middle Ages
masses made in fulfillment of vows or promises
votive masses
The body was placed on a bier or a hearse and on it was laid the book of the gospels as a symbol of father and the cross as a symbol of hope. On the way to the grave, a pall was thrown over the corpse, and priests bearing candles and chanting psalms marched before or on either side of the dead.
The practice when an Anglo-Saxon of importance died
a donation to the church
soul shot or mortuary fee
Why did the pope erase the old prohibition against church burial?
it distressed relatives to see their dead carried far from them, and that transportation involved heavy expense to the poor.
Why did burials within churchs become a problem? and how was it fixed?
The amount of space available for sepulture within the church was severely limited.
- church burials became a privilege to be granted in the future to priests and to such persons as merited such special recognition by the eminence of their lives.
another name for a churchyard
gods acre
why was burial in churchyards such a sought after privilege?
because people feared vampires or ghouls and burying the deceased in consecrated ground stopped them from coming close
murder of ones self
felo de se
they were sometimes buried at a crossroads with a stake driven through the body; sometimes in the churchyard by night
If someone was found guilty of “felo de se”
The belief in a state of purgation in which “those whole souls are not perfectly cleansed undergo a process of cleansing” before they can enter heaven;
Catholic doctrine of “Purgatory”
