M11 Review: The Power of the Church

Compared church and political authority to two swords

• Richard the LIonheart

• Pope Urban II

• Gelasius

• Benedict

Different ranks of religious officials.

Supervised priests but were under papal authority.

Important religious ceremonies administered by priests.

Established order in matters such as marriage and religious practices.

• Cannon Law

• The Pope

• Priests

• Magna Carta

Denied salvations, all king's vassals were free from their duties.

• Excommunication

• Interdict

• Lay Investiture

• Canossa

Religious services could not be performed in the king's land.

• Excommunication

• Interdict

• Lay Investiture

• Church Law

Ceremony in which kings and nobles appointed church officials.

Strongest state in Europe until about 1100.

The church alone could appoint bishops but the kings could veto the decision.

• Lay Investiture

• Cannon Law

• Concordat of Worms

• Treaty of Versailles