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Church is Omnipresent• Act of Homage
• Monarchial Crowning
• Guilds had patron saint
• Cathedrals
• Referee at battles
• Served as the KYW of its time
– News, time, when to plant/harvest
How does this work by Sassetta
capture the medieval
Weltanschauung?Vat’s a
Weltanschauung, anyvay (oops)?
Anyway…
What was the Church like before 1000?
• Fragmented and localized
• Clergy uneducated, illiterate, semi-pagan
• Corrupt clergy
How did Gregory VII extend Papal power?
• Called for more discipline in Church– Celibacy
• Declared that Pope is supreme over Kings
• Called for end of lay investiture
• Henry IV of HRE– excommunicated
How did Innocent III extend Church Power?
• Forbade priests from officiating ordeals/battles
• Relics controlled
• Sacraments declared path to salvation
• Transubstantiation declared legit
How did the Church’s intellectual activity grow and contribute to Europe’s
modernization?• Universities formed after
1200• Thomas Aquinas
–Saved works of the Ancients
–Scholasticism
• Note: It also held back modernization later
The Crusades• Religious Wars
• Pope Urban II (1095)
• Reasons for calling them?
• Jerusalem
• Christian Unity (East and West)
• Riffraff
• Other?
What impact did the Crusades have on Europe?
• Power of pope and of Europe– Ultimately weakened
Church (Children’s Crusade)
• Exposed Europeans to a more advanced culture
• Opened up trade with the East