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Gr 7 History Ch 12
Grade 7 History Ch 12 Review - Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| monasticism | withdrawing from society and living in solitude |
| monks, nuns, hermits, friars | men and women who practice monasticism; men who lived in the wilderness and felt that torturing themselves would please God; monks who preached and did missionary work outside the monasteries |
| Eucharist | the Lord's Supper |
| transubstantiation | the belief that the elements of the Lord's Supper actually change from bread and wine to Christ's body and His blood |
| saints | deceased person officially recognized by the church as holy |
| indulgences | certificates from the pope that excused a person from going penance and shortened the required stay in purgatory |
| penance | the sacrament of punishments in this life for repentant sinners |
| purgatory | the place where repentant sinners had to stay after death until they had been properly punished for their sin and could enter heaven |
| Vulgate | Jerome's Latin translation of the Scripture |
| breviary | a book with the official order of worship in church services |
| Lollards | followers of John Wycliffe |
| Hussites | followers of John Huss |
| heretics | baptized members of the Roman church who disagreed with any official church opinion |
| scholasticism | an approach to learning which tried to combine Greek philosophy and Romanism |
| dukes | powerful nobles who ruled small territories in Germany |
| cardinals | priests of the churches in Rome or bishops of churches close to Rome |
| humanities | subjects such as history, grammar, rhetoric, and petry |
| Renaissance man | one who displays his talents in all fields |
| patrons | people who use their own money to support the arts |