1011 What role did the Church have on medical developments
1. WALT: Assess the
importance
of the Church
Describe and explain the Church in medieval medicine. (D)
Describe and explain the impact of the Church on medicine(C)
Assess the impact the Church on attitudes to medicine and disease (A)
2. What does this image tell you about
causes of disease and infection in the
medieval period and the influence of
the Church?
It tells me …
3. Why were religion and medicine
so closely linked…
What have they
got in common?
Extension – How close were they to the
actual cause. How importance was CHANCE
as a factor.
4. Consequences
Think about who people turned to and who they didn’t…
Who was worst hit…?
Who did they blame?
• People lost faith with the medical profession and turned
back to superstitious and religious explanations of the
disease.
• A third of the population died with the towns being worst
hit because people lived so close together.
• People became less tolerant as they became more
frightened – minority groups like the Jews were falsely
blamed for the black death.
5. Causes of Disease.
• Use page 58-59 of the Textbook. Use the BLUE section.
• You have 12 minutes to create a mind map with two sides.
Q. What changed from the ANCIENT to MEDIEVAL period.
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6. Promenade
• Q. What changed from the ANCIENT to MEDIEVAL period.
7. Assessment.
Source: In 1348, when the Black Death reached England, the Church played an
important role in medieval ideas. Many people thought illness had a supernatural
cause. Other ideas at the time were that disease was caused by miasma, or by an
imbalance of the humours.
Tomorrow we will be writing an answer you need to
bring along your plan.
8. Quick Question.
• 1 minute to Discuss and 4 minutes to write.
• How did the Christian Church hinder the progress of medicine in
the Medieval Period.
• Write your answer in 4 minutes. No More no Less
9. Church
• We’ve now seen the influence that the Christian church had
on the developments of medicine in the medieval period on
the West.
• We are now going to look at the impact that the Islamic
church had on Easter medicine.
11. Find Someone Who
• Can give you 3 examples of Islamic doctors and describe what they
discovered or contributed
• Can explain 2 ways in which Islamic religion helped medicine and 1
way it hindered medicine
• Can explain how Islamic government helped medicine
• Can give a reason why the Roma empire collapsed and a
consequence of its collapse
• Can explain how the Catholic church hindered medicine in medieval
times
• Can explain how the Catholic church helped medicine in the middle
ages
• Can give 2 new ideas or approaches used by medieval doctors
• Can name the terrible disease which swept across Europe in the
1340’s killing around ¼ of the whole population
• Can explain why there was no progress in anatomy during the middle
ages
• Can explain what a ‘barber surgeon’ and a ‘wise woman’ did in the
middle ages
