Church In The Middle Ages

Question 1

What was the lay investure battle

Answer 1

Lay investure-Kings appointing church leaders

Gregory VII-only church could appoint its leaders
Henry IV-Germany
Concordat of worms-1122
1. Leader/King appoint church official feudal-“secular”
2. Pope-spiritual authority-pope-church

Question 2

What was the struggle for supremacy

Answer 2

Innocent III-
Pope-vicar on earth--
Total authority
Remove any ruler who disagreed
Interdict-no longer give the sacrifices
Excommunication

Question 3

What was the Cistercians

Answer 3

Strict-physical labor/prayer

Outstretched into the community

Question 4

What were Benedictines

Answer 4

Stay in monastery-private

Question 5

Franciscans?

Answer 5

Gave up all of his wealth-vow of povertt

Work-begging

Helping the poor-missionary

Question 6

Dominicans?

Answer 6

Stopping heresy-vow of poverty

Inquisition-torture
Executed heretics

Question 7

What were their practices

Answer 7

Latin-mass-transistancian

Sacraments-had to keep in order God’s grace
Relics-worship
Saints-prayed
Mary-pilgrimage

Works

The priests

Question 8

Nuns?

Answer 8

Aristocratic women
Do things-musicians
Composure

Question 9

Church architecture

Answer 9

Gothic-church
Flying buttress-support to the walls from outside

Stain glass windows
Illiterate-teaching tools

Question 10

Universities and scholasticism

Answer 10

Bologna-Italy
Theology oriented
15-20 years of "school"
Paris-Oxford
80 schools

Reason and faith-
Thomas Aquinas-summa theologica
Ask a question argument from both sides

Question 11

Vernacular literature

Answer 11

Literature in common
Language-
Aristocrats
Poetry
Epic-song of Roland

Question 12

What are Papal States

Answer 12

Government-country

Vatican City