RLG210Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: New Age, Structural Level, Aromatherapy
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Scholars argued that the feudal system spilled into he way the church carried out its functions. Also the way christians that prayed changed from standing and closed hands to clapped hands. Christ in this period is described as god he father"s vassal. He is below god the father, and instead of calling him a son, god the father was the lord and jesus was his vassal. Many of he higher members of the clergy become vassals to big landlords like kings and princes. Dream of the rood a poem. The speaker is the cross in which the jesus was crucified in the language of the anglo-saxons called the room. He is described as an anglo-saxon warrior and though his crucifixion, he gains a victory. The rood says that he too is a loyal retainer to god the father. Song of roland is one of the classics of medieval literature we find a warrior christian ethos.
