Jan. 28 - Middle Ages

There is an assignment due Friday, Jan. 31. Students received a internet packet in class last Friday.  The website for the assignment is Middle Ages Packet.  If you have any questions comment on my blog or talk to me at school.

Review

- The Catholic Church was the only church in Europe

- Monks performed their daily task in silence

- Monks live in Monasteries and Nuns live in Convents

- Both provide safe haven for Pilgrims and other travelers

- Pilgrimage is a journey to to a holy shrine or place

- Jerusalem and Rome were common holy places to go

Today's questions

- Who performed surgeries in the Middle Ages?

- What was the most common surgery?

Addition and Expansion

Barbers in the Middle Ages were more important than today. Barbers in the modern period are known to do mainly one thing: cut hair. For much of the last hundred and fifty years, their red and white striped barber poles signified their ability to produce a good clean shave and a quick trim. This was not always the case, however. The barber would also treat and extract teeth, branded slaves, created ritual tattoos or scars, cut out gallstones and hangnails, set fractures, gave enemas, and lanced abscesse.  Most of the time the barber would perform bloodletting.  Barber Surgeon

Upcoming - Middle Ages Test Tuesday