QUAESTIO: WAS THE CHURCH A

POSITIVE FORCE IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE?

NUNC AGENDA: READ AND EXAMINE THE INFOGRAPHIC

ON PAGE 227 IN THE TEXTBOOK

AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS ON YOUR

SHEET.

CHURCHES & CATHEDRALS

Run by PriestRun by Bishop

MONKS & MONASTERIESMonks = members of a

religious community who devote their lives to prayer, fasting, and knowledge, living in a monastery

Followed strict rules of discipline and obedience to their abbot, or leader

Copied religious and secular texts by hand to preserve knowledge

SCRIPTORIUM

VIOLENCE OF KNIGHTS

REMINDERBALANCE OF POWER

Three groups competing for power during Middle Ages:Monarchs Nobles The Church

VOCAB CLARIFIED

PresidentPresidencyPresidential

PopePapacy

Papal

POWER OF THE CHURCHPopes had secular (non-

religious) powerPapal Supremacy = Pope

has control over all religious and secular leaders

Going to church was a requirement for getting to heaven

Popes had the power to excommunicate those who disobeyed them, banning them from the church, and dooming them to hell

POWER OF THE CHURCHPopes had secular

(non-religious) power

700s- Charlemagne’s Empire (included France and Germany) broke into separate states

962- German King Otto I helped the Pope fight his enemies

Pope crowned Otto HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR (abbr. HRE)

HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE

Pope Gregory VII vs King Henry IV of Germany

…also Holy Roman Emperor

INVESTITURE CONTROVERSY

Pope Gregory VII banned lay investiture- practice of having secular ruler chose bishops, he said only the Pope has that power

HRE Henry IV argued that bishops were his vassals since he gave them land, so he should have the power

1076- Gregory excommunicated Henry and planned to crown a new HRE!

1077- Gregory begged forgiveness from the Pope and the Pope had to forgive him

Concordat of Worms- agreement that said Popes chose bishops but Emperors grant them land

INVESTITURE CONTROVERSY

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