FSE1000 - Chapter 3 Death and Burial Through the Middle Ages and Renaissance Questions With Complete Solutions What event marks the end of the Western Roman Empire? - Correct Answers ✅The defeat of Romulus Augusts in 476 marks the end of the Western Roman Empire.Until what year did the Eastern Empire last? - Correct Answers ✅The Eastern Empire lasted until 1453.In those areas that retained Roman customs, what was the reason? - Correct Answers ✅These areas were generally sheltered from the Barbarian hordes.As the Roman lines withdrew from England, who took advantage of the situation? - Correct Answers ✅The tribes of the North and West took advantage when the Roman lines withdrew from England.In the long term, who conquered the Barbarians and how? - Correct Answers ✅"If the Barbarians conquered Rome, then the Church conquered the Barbarians." They established a new common culture and language (Latin), and monks established small pockets of peaceful communities.What were some of the changes from early Christianity in the previous chapter to the current funeral practices in this chapter? - Correct Answers ✅Primitive practices gave way to an imposing dignity that better expressed the importance 1 / 4
FSE1000 - Chapter 3 Death and Burial Through the Middle Ages and Renaissance Questions With Complete Solutions of members of the Church. The dead were brought to Church, and a Requiem Mass (spoken or sung) was established.What was the name of the rule that required penitents to bring the dead to Church for burial? - Correct Answers ✅The Statuta Antiqua (Old Statute Law) required penitents bring the dead to Church for burial.Theodore of Tarsus gave us how many regulations?How many were applicable to funerals and how so? - Correct Answers ✅Theodore of Tarsus gave 10 regulations, 2 were of interest.
- Carry the dead religious to Church where anointing with
- Memorials on the 1st, 3rd, 9th and 30th days; a Mass is
Chrisom and a Mass is said before taking them to their graves where additional prayers are said then covered with earth and stone.
celebrated for them and, if desired, an annual remembrance on the anniversary of death.Describe the funeral of Empress Theodolinda including who it was that arranged for it. - Correct Answers ✅Empress Theodolinda was the friend of Pope Gregory the Great. Her funeral lasted a week; her body brought to the Cathedral of Monza. The interior was draped with expensive black cloth, catafalque with canopy was used with burning tapes alongside. Hundreds of Churches offered Masses and bells 2 / 4
FSE1000 - Chapter 3 Death and Burial Through the Middle Ages and Renaissance Questions With Complete Solutions tolled across the land. Her body was interred under the high alter and a shrine was constructed to surmount the altar.What was a way for a patron of a Church to establish their legacy at the Church? - Correct Answers ✅The practice of building shrines, chapels and chanceries were all ways for wealthy people to have their legacies preserved and prayers offered for them.In what year did Anglo-Saxons conquer England? - Correct Answers ✅Anglo-Saxons conquered England in the 5th century.Describe an Anglo-Saxon funeral. - Correct Answers ✅The body was placed on a bier or hearse and on it was placed a book of the Gospels as a symbol of faith and the Cross as a symbol of hope. A pall of silk or linen was placed over the corpse and symbols. Priests bore lighted candles and chanted psalms as they marched before and on either side of the body. Family and friends followed behind along with strangers who deemed it a corporal work of mercy. If the procession reached the cemetery in the evening, the night was spent in prayer and in the morning Mass was sung for the dead. The body was laid in the grave, and liberal alms were given to the poor. Family and clergy returned to the hall to eat of the 'funeral baked meats'. 3 / 4
FSE1000 - Chapter 3 Death and Burial Through the Middle Ages and Renaissance Questions With Complete Solutions What was the soul shot? - Correct Answers ✅The soul shot was a mortuary fee paid for by the estate.How long could a funeral for a king, knight or squire last around the year 1066? - Correct Answers ✅A funeral for a king, knight or squire could last a week around the year 1066.What type of shroud was used to wrap the body of the deceased, and when was it given to them? - Correct Answers ✅Linen was used to shroud the body, and it was usually given as a wedding present.What precedent did Constantine set by where he was buried?
- Correct Answers ✅Constantine requested to be buried in
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the Church of Holy Apostles, and by doing so, set precedent for dignitaries and high ranking members of the Church to be buried in Churches as well.Early on, who were the only individuals to be buried within a Church? - Correct Answers ✅Early on, it was the practice of the Christian Church that only martyrs be buried within the Church itself.Emperor Theodosius changed a law in 381, what was it? - Correct Answers ✅In 381, Emperor Theodosius reversed policy and decreed that anything within Rome should be removed to a distance outside of it (buried bodies).