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Activities |
Resources |
| Introducing Medieval
Pilgrimage.
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An American website about Pilgrimage
churches including St Sernin.
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| Why did medieval people go on a
pilgrimage?
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Read the Medieval Pilgrimage section
on motives and answer these questions.
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| Medieval Pilgrimage website on motives |
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| Why were relics so important to
Medieval People?
Hypertext
glossary additions: brandea, ampulla, reliquaries, translation
(of body of saint), partition (of body of saint), consecrated.
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Read the Medieval Pilgrimage section
on relics and answer these questions.
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| Medieval Pilgrimage website page on relics. |
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| What was it like to go on a medieval
pilgrimage?
How did they decide where to go? What did pilgrims wear? What
were the dangers of travel by land and travel overseas? Hypertext
glossary additions: canonized, alms, mantelet, staff, scrip,
sclavein, hospice. |
Read the Medieval Pilgrimage section
on journey and complete these activities.
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| Medieval Pilgrimage website page on journey. |
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| Can you be a medieval pilgrim? |
An empathy activity
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Click here
for more information.
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| Why could no one ignore the Church? |
'Think' questions and all 'Steps' 1,2
and 3.
Thinking the enquiry through: Building a board game
about the power of the medieval church.
Each game has to illustrate the
ways through which the medieval church controlled peoples'
lives: sometimes the church helped and gave people hope;
sometimes the church could be powerful and made people
obey. The student games had to include a playing board,
three sets of playing cards, counters and instructions
with rules on how to play.
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Medieval Minds, Chapter 12 See the images and
videos
of the student games from previous years:
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See this BBC article about
the influence of the medieval church |
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