HIS109Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Middle Ages, Babylonian Captivity, Western Schism
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09/30/2015 (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Plenitude potestatis: pope claimed the right to do anything. Power to remove from jobs or heaven. How the church managed to create centralized beaurocracy. Funnel money for religious reasons and political or military. Recognition that power can deliver: indicate that law and ability to adjudicate are superior to anybody else. Huge interest in the law of the church operating. More and more people take legal questions to rome implied recognition of absolute authority of church courts church courts notoriously expensive. Papal camera: bedroom , safest room in the house, secure crusades, knights get property, liberate jeruselem, old knights felt guilty. Sent money to pope instrument required an office. Money for crusades gave rise to beurocratic machine linked everybody in europe to papacy in rome. Pope spokesman of crusades also wealth clause: fought wars, needed money. Began taxing clergy 1199: 1/40th of annual income to pope.
