HIST 10800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Pope Clement V, Unam Sanctam, Pope Urban Ii
Document Summary
High middle ages from around 1000-1300, dramatic changes in european society, vigorous growth for european civilization. Three field system in stead of 2-field system, 2 planted, 1 lies fallow (unplanted) Burghers people who lived in a walled town, normally middle class. Guild an association of people who worked in the same profession, helped the workers in the guild. Monasteries a religious community of men/women who give up all their possessions, live in seclusion, devote lives to worship and prayer. Benedictine rule rules determining the life of monks and nuns in monasteries. Lay investiture when laymen (feudal lords/kings) preformed ceremonies to give offices to church officials. Gregory vii pope in 1073, very reform, clashed w/ king henry iv over lay investiture. Henry iv germanic king, called holy roman emperor, dissagreed w/ gregory vii over lay investiture. Concordat of worms in 1122, a compromise: the church alone could grant bishops office, but kings could grant land.
