Honors 4/11 You will discuss the influence and reforms of the Church using your notes and grpahic organizers to identify social, political, and economic effects.
Daily life The Church was the center of towns and villages No meat on Fridays, mass on Sundays Church ran hospitals and cared for the poor Recorded births, performed marriages, conducted burials
Political life Church leaders both lords and vassals Served as advisors to illiterate kings Canon law followed before king’s law Those who disobeyed could be excommunicated Continued disobedience results in interdict
Inquisition Attempts to stop heresy Anyone suspected could plead guilty, be punished, accepted back in Church Refusal to confess ended in torture or burning at the stake
Cluny 910 AD Duke of Aquitaine founds monastery in Cluny Wanted to only be subject to the Pope Strictly follow Benedictine rule By 1000 AD there were more than 300 houses under Cluny leadership
Reforms Pope Gregory VII Marriage of Priests Selling of Church offices, simony Lay investiture
Friars Similar to monks except that friars traveled to preach Dominic = Dominicans Francis of Assisi = Franciscans