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The Medieval Church
I) Introduction: the Church and the Middle Ages
II) The Structure of the Church
Secular Hierarchy
Regular Hierarchy
III) The Transformation of the Church
IV) The Church in the Late Middle Ages
Secular (saeculum) versus Regular (regula)
Pluralism
Bishops, Abbots
Hildebrand, Gregory VII (pope, 1073-1085)
Pentarchy: Jerusalem, Antioch, Alexandria,
Henry IV (r. 1056-1106)
Constantinople, Rome
Milan
Gregory the Great (b. c. 540; pope 590-604)
Canossa (1077)
Pastoral Care (593)
Pascal II (1099-1118)
Franks
Concordat of Worms (1122)
Legates
Dictatus Papae (1075)
Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400)
Trivium - rhetoric, grammar, dialectic
Antony (251-356)
Quadrivium - mathematics, astronomy, geometry,
Pachomius (290-347)
music
Benedict of Nursia (c. 480-547)
Universitas
Charlemagne (747-814)
Salerno
Cluny (founded 909)
Aristotle (384-322 BC)
Cistercians (after 1096)
William of Norwich (d. 1144)
Francis of Assisi (1181-1226)
Thomas of Monmouth (fl. 1150-1175)
Friars Minor (Franciscans)
Chimerical
Sacral Kingship
Consanguinity
Bologna
Fourth Lateran Council (1215)
Lay Investiture
Confession, Pugatory, Saints’ cults
"Libertas ecclesiae"
Margery Kempe (d. 1438)
Simony (Simon Magus; Acts 8.18-24)
Suggested Further Reading:
R.I. Moore, The Formation of a Persecuting Society
Henry IV to Gregory VII: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/henry4-to-g7a.html