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toc =1. What marks the differences between a civil and a religious building?= The difference is that the religious buildings are used to pray an the civil buildings are used for treating political things and to protect the city and making treatments. =2. Make a list of the most important civil buildings and another of the most important religious buildings in the city that you can still see today.= The most important civil buildings are the Ribat, the Santa Catalina de los Donados hospital, the Casa de Cisneros and the casa y torre de los Lujanes. The most important religious buildings are La Iglesia de San Nicolás de los Servitas, el Monasterio de San Martín, La Iglesia de San Miguel de los Octoes, La Parroquia de San Ginés, La Parroquia de Santa Cruz, and La Iglesia de San Pedro el viejo. =3. What function did the civil buildings have? What were they used for?=

-Ribat: It was used as a fortress and refugee for the militars and was also used as an arab monastery dedicater to the pray. -Santa Catalina de los Donados hospital: It was used as a place for saving ill people. -Casa de Cisneros:It was used as an hotel, it also served as a prision. -Torre de los Lujanes: It was used for many things, as a residence, there were located there the installation of the optic telegraph, etc. =4. What function did the religious buildings have? What were they used for?=

-La Iglesia de San Nicolás de los Servitas: At first it was used as a church, but during the independence war is was used to place there the weapons. Now is used as a church again. - El Monasterio de San Martín: It was constructed to serve as a church or convent. -La Iglesia de San Miguel de los Octoes: It was used for praying. Actually is used as a church and sometimes for marries or comunions. -La Parroquia de San Ginés: It was used as a church to pray to San Ginés.La Parroquia de Santa Cruz: It was constructed to comemorate de battle of la navas de tolosa, it was used as a church. La Iglesia de San Pedro el viejo:It was a church to pray. =5. Who ordered and paid for the construction of the civil buildings? Why?= -the Ribat:Muhammad I order to construct it because they need a fortress for protecion. -the Santa Catalina de los Donados hospital:It was builted by Benito Jiménez of Cisneros

- the Casa de Cisneros: - casa y torre de los Lujanes:Was told to built by Alvaro de Lujan but the author of the building is anonimous =6. Who ordered and paid for the construction of the religious buildings? Why?=

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-La Parroquia de San Ginés:We don´t know who ordered its construction. It was constructed for catholic mass. -La Parroquia de Santa Cruz:It was order to built by Alfonso VIII. -La Iglesia de San Pedro el viejo:It was built by Francisco Sanz.====== = = =The Big Question= 1. In what ways society organized in Madrid during the Middle Ages? 2. What did the people who built the buildings hope to show with their structures? 3.What role did religion play during the Middle Ages? Was it a private and personal matter? Or, was it related to social status?

Society was organized in three estates. The nobles that were the knigths and their familias and they should defend the population. The clergy that were the monks and priests who had to pray for the espiritual salvation of the people. And the third estate were the workers who were mainly peasans. They produced and sold things needed by the people. The nobles and the clergy were privileged estates, thus they do not had to pay taxes. The workers were a non-privileged estate, so they had to pay taxes. People who built big structures wanted to show their power and how wealthy they are, for example the Escorial is very big and the cathedrals in the villages are tallest than the rest of the buildings. Also the religious buildings wanted to transmit by the drawins in the walls and cellings the religion and make people believe in God. The only recognized religion was christianity, in the form of catholic religion. wether you were a peasant a serf or a nobleman life was dominated by the church. The lives of many medieval people were dedicated to relgion.