The Australian Scene The Catholic Church began in Australia on 26 January 1788‚ when the first Catholics arrived in Sydney Harbor with the first fleet. The first Catholics were neither priests‚ neither brothers nor nuns‚ in fact‚ they were no regular priests here for the first 38 years of European settlement. The first Catholics- English‚ Scottish and Irish- were lay people. From the beginning the Catholics were poor. They were migrants‚ usually uneducated and most were convicts. From the beginning
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Different people and influences stabilized Europe in the Early Middle Ages. Charlemagne unified the empire and encouraged learning‚ feudalism helped to set up a structured society and broke down the roles of the people‚ and the church influenced daily life and used its power and authority to influence changes‚ such as attempting to stop war. The Early Middle Ages of Europe was able to sustain life do to these influences. Charlemagne‚ the grandson of Charles Martel‚ brought about changes that helped
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the role of religion and the church in medieval and renaissance society. The head church in Europe during the medieval ages was the Roman Catholic Church. Religion was the foremost divine power and authority during the medieval period. Therefore the lives of the people were completely dominated by the church; whether they were peasants‚ noble men‚ or kings. Because of their strong authority over people‚ religious institution became very rich and powerful. The church controlled every aspect of
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Many people call the Middle Ages the “Dark Ages”. That means that there were not a lot of educated and intellectual people. This is inaccurate because there was a lot of intellectual progress. This is proven by document D‚ this shows that there was poetic advancement. It is also proven by the Magna Carta‚ which shows an in depth look at their laws and demands for personal freedom which takes a lot of intellectual knowledge to come up with such a sophisticated system. It was this system that laid
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Middle Ages Dates: 1. What was going historically during this era? What was life like? 2. Who or what had the power? 3. Who were learned or literate? 4. Who were allowed to sing in church? 5. Most of the music that was notated during the middle ages was sacred or secular? 6. Was most medieval music vocal? 7. What is Gregorian Chant? Discuss its origin‚ texture‚ melody‚ rhythm‚ text. How did it receive its name? What is its purpose? 8. When chant was notated‚ was the rhythm notated or
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The Middle Ages had many interesting characteristics concerning the literature of that time period. The important literary works “incorporated elements and values drawn from different and conflicting traditions (Patterson 1143). For every opinion‚ there was another opinion to counter it. Many of the pieces of literature at this time had contradictory ideas in them or had competing interests (Patterson 1144). The literature of this time shows us that “many people took the central doctrine of
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Filippo Brunelleschi was an aid to the Catholic Church‚ for he built the dome of the Florence Cathedral and made many advancements to the architecture of the Church. Humanists of Medieval times were philosophers that believed in the importance of poetry‚ writing and forms of art. Humanists aimed to spread eloquence fluidity among the citizens‚ to create a society full of knowledge and unity through introducing the people to literature‚ writing and art. Filippo
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The Middle Ages was a time where people tried to gain back the knowledge they previously lost due to the collapse of the Roman Empire. The most common system that they would use was Feudalism. Every level in feudalism benefitted each other‚ and everything would collapse if one level didn’t do their part. Feudalism is a military based system depending on loyalty to meet the needs of its people because if everyone is loyal to their obligations because everyone would benefit in some way. The Hundred
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you do? In the age of medieval Europe‚ 500- 1450‚ disease was raging. Cholera‚ measles‚ leprosy‚ but the worst of all the bubonic plague. Millions of people died because of the bubonic plague due to poor hygienic conditions. There were not many doctors in this time‚ but the ones that were there were frantic trying to find a cure for the plague. The doctors were not well educated and this caused a lot of inaccurate information. Not much came along in this period because the church had a large influence
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Differences of a Baptists and Catholic church Growing up I was introduced to many different denomination of Christianity. The Baptist and Catholic church are the two that sticks out to me the most because of how they differ from each other. In the last four years I have experienced what it is like to attend a Baptist and Catholic church. My Christian denomination is Baptist but because I attended a Catholic high school‚ I gained a lot of knowledge about Catholicism. Theses two denominations differs
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