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Mind Map by Aimee Robbins, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Aimee Robbins
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Why Did Medicine Not Move
Forward In The Middle Ages?
- The
Church
- The church dominated life from peasants to the incredibly
wealthy, since heaven was desired, while hell was feared and
respected. God was the reason behind everything and
questioning God was a crime worthy of death called 'heresy'
and heratics by name often were murdered.
- Also, people tend to say that it
was forced upon the society at
the time, while actually, given 80
days of holiday each year, the
majority believed in the Pope and
what he said went. He was the
most powerful human alive,
hand-selected by God to rule the
church.
- Not only did people feel that God was in
charge, but the Pope agreed with Galen
and Hippocrates were correct, therefore
nobody dared or wanted to challenge the
theories.
- The church dominated life from peasants to the incredibly
wealthy, since heaven was desired, while hell was feared and
respected. God was the reason behind everything and
questioning God was a crime worthy of death called 'heresy'
and heratics by name often were murdered.
- Work and Harvests
- Long hours were worked and even in
the winter, when farmers couldn't
work their farms, they would have
additional jobs to do. This led to no
time for education, allowing church to
be the only common knowledge they
had.
- Long hours were worked and even in
the winter, when farmers couldn't
work their farms, they would have
additional jobs to do. This led to no
time for education, allowing church to
be the only common knowledge they
had.
- Food Supplies and Transport
- Butchery was a big problem,
where animal waste was
concerned, since animals
roamed the streets, until they
were butchered and their
remains were once again tossed
into the streets. Despite each
village having an area for
butchery, waste was washed
into various other areas of a
village, adding to the foul
smelling, streets. Even horses
used for transport added to the
state of the streets.
- Citizens would wear wooden overshoes, to prevent
them dirtying their shoes on the excrement in the
streets and laws were put in place to stop waste being
put onto the streets, leading to people being fined, yet
the government had no responsibility or money to
provide public services. In the end, nobody cleaned
their home area as they were supposed to and also
were not punished.
- Butchery was a big problem,
where animal waste was
concerned, since animals
roamed the streets, until they
were butchered and their
remains were once again tossed
into the streets. Despite each
village having an area for
butchery, waste was washed
into various other areas of a
village, adding to the foul
smelling, streets. Even horses
used for transport added to the
state of the streets.
- Attitudes
- Barely anybody thought for
themselves and it was
frowned upon to seek further
knowledge past God, another
way of being convicted of
heresy.
- Furthermore, people couldn't afford or understand new and
different material, so they had no way of getting alternative views
really.
- Barely anybody thought for
themselves and it was
frowned upon to seek further
knowledge past God, another
way of being convicted of
heresy.
- Education
- The only education provided
was in church, taught by monks
and nuns. It was to write out
and repeatedly read the Bible,
meaning that literate people
were still incapable of believing
other sources.People who were
educated would become a
monk or a nun, leading to many
physicians and surgeons being
monks.
- The only education provided
was in church, taught by monks
and nuns. It was to write out
and repeatedly read the Bible,
meaning that literate people
were still incapable of believing
other sources.People who were
educated would become a
monk or a nun, leading to many
physicians and surgeons being
monks.
- Communications
- In order for information to be
sent, people had to either
send a letter or an oral
message, which would arrive
days later by horse. Many
people wouldn't leave their
village in their whole
lifetime, therefore there was
very little contact between
the people of different
vollages.
- This improved somewhat in the 1470s when printing came to
England, something obviously not everyone could afford, but
something that people were able to communicate using.
- If somebody has a new idea, there
was no way to spread it or
ingluence others.
- In order for information to be
sent, people had to either
send a letter or an oral
message, which would arrive
days later by horse. Many
people wouldn't leave their
village in their whole
lifetime, therefore there was
very little contact between
the people of different
vollages.
- The King and His Government
- At the time, the government had very little
power, which they exerted on wartime
mainly. The church held power over the
government and they were discouraged
from thinking for themselves.
- They provided no public services; there were no police
or cleaning methods, leading to a very unhealthy
environment for people to live in and healers had to
make the best of what they had and the foul streets
which didn't look to improve.
- Furthermore, the government were the only other institute of
power besides the church and they fed the church's ideas to
their public, so the only thing citizens were hearing from any
figure of power was that the Church was their life.
- At the time, the government had very little
power, which they exerted on wartime
mainly. The church held power over the
government and they were discouraged
from thinking for themselves.
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