Starter quiz
- A ______ is a religious journey to a holy place.
- 'pilgrimage' ✓
- At which English battle did William de Warenne support William of Normandy?
- Stirling Bridge
- Hastings ✓
- Bannockburn
- Bosworth
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- The Cluniac monks strictly followed the Rule of St ...
- 'Benedict' ✓
- How did William I reward William de Warenne for his loyalty?
- He built a castle in his honour.
- He gave William extensive lands in Norfolk, Sussex and Yorkshire. ✓
- He gave him an annual salary.
- He gave him a position in the Church.
- He gave William extensive lands in Kent, Northumbria and Wales.
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- Where did William de Warenne found his first Cluniac priory in England?
- Castle Acre
- Lewes ✓
- Oxford
- Durham
- Salisbury
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- Castle Acre Priory was a Cluniac priory set up in the county of ______ in East Anglia in 1085.
- 'Norfolk' ✓
Exit quiz
- Match the words with their correct definitions.
- order⇔groups of monks who live as a religious community following set rules ✓
- liturgy⇔the prayers regularly carried out together by a religious group ✓
- celibate⇔not having sexual relationships, usually for religious reasons ✓
- constitution⇔a set of principles and legal decisions which people agree to follow ✓
- Write the missing word. Archbishop ______ wanted to see a stricter adherence to Benedictine Rule in England through his religious reforms.
- 'Lanfranc' ✓
- In Lanfranc's monastic constitutions, the wording of which part of religious services was reformed?
- baptism
- Bible readings
- the liturgy ✓
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- How many Benedictine monasteries were there in England by 1135?
- 35
- 75
- 150
- 250 ✓
- 350
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- The correct term for the head of a monastery which is independent of other monasteries is an ...
- 'abbot' ✓
- In 1083, English monks at which monastery resisted Lanfranc’s changes to religious services, with tragic consequences?
- Shrewsbury
- Dunster
- Glastonbury ✓
- Tavistock
- Ely
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Key learning points
- Monastic life in Norman England was based on the Rule of St Benedict.
- Monasteries were important to Lanfranc's reforms of the English Church.
- As well as his Church reforms, Lanfranc also circulated new monastic rules.
- The Normans introduced Cluniac monasteries to England.
- English abbots were replaced with Normans.
Common misconception
Monks were all poor.
Although individual monks gave up all their possessions, Norman monasteries were often extremely wealthy because they held very large amount of land granted to them by the king or Norman barons and knights.
Keywords
Order - in this context, groups of monks or nuns who live together as a religious community, following a set of rules for that order
Liturgy - the prayers and rituals regularly carried out together by a religious community or religious group
Celibate - not having sexual relationships, usually for religious reasons
Constitution - a set of principles and legal decisions which people agree to follow
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