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The Norman Church

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Key learning points

  1. The Normans changed many aspects of the English Church.
  2. Norman personnel were installed in senior Church positions.
  3. The English Church was brought in line with ideas of the Reform Papacy.

Keywords

  • Veneration - to show great respect and honour to something

Common misconception

The Norman conquest was a brutal military occupation which resulted in wholescale change of the English Church.

Whilst there were significant changes, the English Church retained its basic structure and liturgy.

Summary lessons can contain a lot of knowledge, confusing students with multiple competing conclusions. Provide students with historical interpretations of the events and task students with deciding which interpretation is more compelling, given all the contextual knowledge they now have.
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Content guidance

  • Depiction or discussion of sensitive content
  • Depiction or discussion of violence or suffering

Supervision

Adult supervision recommended

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6 Questions

Q1.
Put these daily prayers of monks in order.
1 - Matins
2 - Lauds
3 - Compline
Q2.
What was the word for a child who is sent to be a monk in Anglo-Saxon and Norman England?
conversi
obligate
Correct answer: oblate
Q3.
The is the term for the prayers and rituals regularly carried out by a religious community.
Correct Answer: liturgy, divine service
Q4.
When did Lanfranc become head of the English Church?
1060
Correct answer: 1070
1080
1090
Q5.
How many Benedictine monasteries were in England by 1135?
25
35
Correct answer: 250
350
Q6.
Why did English monks in Glastonbury get into trouble with their Norman abbot, Tustin?
They resisted changes Lanfranc wanted to make about how children became monks.
They resisted changes regarding following the rule of Saint Benedict.
Correct answer: They resisted changes Lanfranc wanted to make to the liturgy.

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6 Questions

Q1.
Lanfranc replaced Stigand as Archbishop of Canterbury in ...
1050.
1060.
Correct answer: 1070.
1080.
Q2.
Why were synods introduced?
Correct answer: to give bishops greater control over clerical discipline
to give bishops greater control over how people worshipped
to give bishops greater control over how donations were used
to give bishops greater control over clerical land and assets
Q3.
What did Lanfranc try to enforce on the clergy?
simony
nepotism
pilgrimages
Correct answer: celibacy
Q4.
The term for showing great respect and honour to something is .
Correct Answer: veneration, venerate
Q5.
Religious buildings changed after 1100 by ...
Correct answer: being constructed from stone rather than wood.
increasing the number of schools in monasteries.
Correct answer: being built in the Romanesque style.
being built in the Anglo-Saxon style
Q6.
Match these changes to the reasons they came about.
Correct Answer:There were more Norman bishops.,This aligned the Church more closely with Norman rule.

This aligned the Church more closely with Norman rule.

Correct Answer:Religious wealth went to Normandy.,William needed to reward the Church for its support for his invasion.

William needed to reward the Church for its support for his invasion.

Correct Answer:Benedict's rule was strictly enforced.,This was to remove corrupt practices.

This was to remove corrupt practices.

Correct Answer:Simony and nepotism were banned.,This was to create a more disciplined clergy.

This was to create a more disciplined clergy.

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