Western Civilization 
Outline #20
Professor Knight

The Medieval Church

I.  The Christian Worldview
	Sacred and Secular spheres overlap
	Problems:  Relationship between sacred and secular authority
		How to keep the Church pure?

II.  Monastic Life
	Benedictine Monasteries
	Cluniac Monasteries (Cluny)
	Cartusians—extreme asceticism 
	Cistercians
		Citeaux—Head Cistercian Abbey in France
		St. Bernard of Clairvaux
		How not to get rich?
		Trappists

III.  Heretical Movements
	Church Corruption
	Papacy in 10th and 11th Centuries:  Pope Benedict IX
	Simonry
	Anti-Clericism
	Waldensians
		Peter Waldo of Lyon
	Albigensians (Catheri)
		Dualism:  Creation divided between forces of good and evil
	Pope Innocent III declares Albigensian Crusade—1208
	Massacre of Albigensians
	The Inquisition

IV.  New Urban Orders
	Dominicans
		St. Dominic (1170-1221)
		Vows of Poverty, Active life among urban masses.
	Franciscans
		St. Francis of Assisi (1182-1126)
		Mendicancy:  Extreme poverty, living off begging
		Joy, Simplicity, Love of Nature