History Vocabulary Chapter 2
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- natural law
- the concept that there is a universal order built into nature that can guide moral thinking
- relic
- an object considered holy because it belongs to, or was touched by a saint or other holy person
- monasticism
- a way of life in which men and women withdraw from the rest of the world in order to devote themselves to their faith
- persecute
- to cause a person to suffer because of his/her beliefs
- university
- a school of advanced learning
- clergy
- the body of people, such as priests, who preform the sacred functions of a church
- friars
- a member of a certain religious order devoted to teaching and works of charity
- pilgrimage
- a journey to a holy sight
- convent
- a community of nuns; also called a nunnery
- sacrament
- a solemn right of Christian churches
- monastery
- a community of monks
- rhetoric *
- the study of persuasive writting and speaking
- theology
- the study of God and religious truth
- excommunicate *
- to formally deprive a person of membership in a church
- illuminated manuscript
- a handwritten book decorated with bright colors and precious metals
- religious order
- a brotherhood or sisterhood of monks, nuns, or friars
- nun
- a women who has taken solemn vow to devote her life to prayer and service to a church
- monk
- a man who has taken solemn vow to devote his life to prayer and service in a monastery