Practice question · Put in order
Arrange these episodes in the reform and expansion of the Latin church, earliest first.
- Henry IV does penance at Canossa
- Fourth Lateran requires annual confession of every Christian
- The cardinals are given the right to elect the pope
- Gregory VII issues the Dictatus papae
- Urban II preaches the crusade at Clermont
- The Concordat of Worms settles the investiture dispute
Hints
- Four of these fall within fifty years of one another.
- The election decree 1059, the Dictatus 1075, Canossa 1077, Clermont 1095, Worms 1122, Lateran IV 1215.
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- The cardinals are given the right to elect the pope
- Gregory VII issues the Dictatus papae
- Henry IV does penance at Canossa
- Urban II preaches the crusade at Clermont
- The Concordat of Worms settles the investiture dispute
- Fourth Lateran requires annual confession of every Christian
Why
The density between 1059 and 1122 is the point: a papacy that had been a local Roman office at the start of the century is legislating for Latin Christendom by its end. Lateran IV, ninety years later, is what that transformed institution can do once it is unchallenged, reach into every parish in Europe.
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