HIST 1001 Lecture : Nov 20 Lecture E4
Document Summary
Investiture= installation of clerics: always a ceremony of oath, problem: lay leaders (monarchs, nobles) claimed right to choose clergy and invest them with their office, gregory vii and reformers claim that clergy should be chosen by clergy. Assertion of papal power: general strengthening of monarchies, england, france, holy roman empire, dictatas papae (1075) In brophy reading, pope thinks he is highest leader and god is highest judge, but henry thinks he and future kings are. Henry mocks the pope in his letters and makes false claims against gregory, makes appeal for his own authority from god. Gregory says the papacy came to him, appeals his letter to st. peter (first bishop of. Rome), who the popes get their authority from. He says henry loses his honor and excommunicates him, deprives him of emperor. Fatimid caliph al-hakin the mad (d. 1021: church of holy sepulcher, dhimmis. Seljuk turks in abbasid caliphate: battle of manzikert (1071, gregory vii.
