Chapter 10 Miss Isler World History. Reformers wanted to purify the church by freeing it from control by lords and kings Popes now chosen by meeting.

Chapter 10Miss Isler

World History

Reformers wanted to purify the church by freeing it from control by lords and kings

Popes now chosen by meeting of leading Bishops (called Cardinals)- not by local nobles or Emperors

Wanted to stop priests from marrying Stop buying and selling of church offices-

called simony Stop lay investiture- bishops becoming

bishops by a feudal lord or knight rather than church official

Gregory VII- Pope, key reformer of church Emperor Henry IV- (German) not like

Gregory’s reforms, enraged In heated letter exchange, Gregory

excommunicated Henry Bishops and princes chose to follow Gregory Henry apologized, no longer

excommunicated, but Henry went home and punished all those that went against him

Their successors still fought over investiture

100 years after Gregory and Henry’s death, representatives of the Church met at Worms Compromise: Concordat of

Worms Church only one to grant

Bishops and his staff Emperors could keep role

of granting Bishops land

Gregorian Reforms led to the Concordat of Worms

Identify three abuses of power that church reformers wanted to end.

Pope highest power of all, higher than king, lord, etc.

All followed canon law- law of the Church Every Christian required to pay tithe-

1/10th of yearly income Fought against heretics (a person who’s

ideas went against the church) by having travelling friars

Towns built massive stone churches- Romanesque architecture

Pointed, ribbed vaultsFlying buttressesPointed archesSalisbury

Cathedral

Notre Dame

People, not buildings, made up the university

Occurred in Paris, Bologna (Italy) by 1100 Oxford followed

Middle-class males attended, in hopes of a job in government or the church

3-5 years for a Bachelors degree All spoken in Latin

is not made by human beings; is based on the structure of reality itself; is the same for all human beings and at

all times; is an unchanging rule or pattern which is

there for human beings to discover; is the naturally knowable moral law; is a means by which human beings can

rationally guide themselves to their good.