Chapter 9 Flashcards
What was the selling of church offices called?
Simony
Who adopted a life of exclusion and strict discipline as a means of restoring the church?
Bernard clairvaux
What was created to ensure that churchmen, rather than kings would choose the popes?
The college of cardinals
What was the agreement that ended the controversy over who appointed clergymen called?
Concordat of worms
What were the “brothers” of the Franciscan and Dominican orders called?
Friars
What were the groups called that supported their monastery by begging?
Mendicant orders
Witch order became closely associated with the inquisition?
The Dominicans
What term refers to the holding of beliefs contrary to the teaching of the church?
Heresy
What was the inquisition?
A church court established to discover and try heretics.
What was the act of depriving an individual of the sacraments and church fellowship called?
Excommunication
What is the appointment of clergymen to positions of authority by kings and nobles called?
Lay investiture
who was crowned holy Roman emperor in 962?
Otto I
who is credited with establishing the Holy Roman Empire?
Otto the great
which king of Germany was called “Barbarossa” and married his son to the heiress of Sicily?
Frederick I
who laid the foundation for a unified England?
Alfred the great
what other title was Alfred the Great given?
founder of the English navy