Sort each development by whether it extended the church’s reach into ordinary LAY life or reorganised the church’s own INTERNAL government.
Groups: Reached into lay life · Reorganised internal government
- Friars preaching in the streets of growing towns
- Election of the pope by the cardinals alone
- Crusade preached to laymen as a penitential act
- Exemption of monasteries from the local bishop
- Compulsory annual confession to one’s own priest
- The division of investiture between church and ruler
Hints
- One column is about what a layman experiences; the other about who holds which office.
- Ask whether a peasant in 1250 would have noticed the change.
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Reached into lay life: Compulsory annual confession to one’s own priest, Friars preaching in the streets of growing towns, Crusade preached to laymen as a penitential act
Reorganised internal government: Election of the pope by the cardinals alone, Exemption of monasteries from the local bishop, The division of investiture between church and ruler
The two columns are connected by a single logic: an institution that has just won control of its own appointments and revenues is in a position to make demands of everyone else. The internal reforms come first, and the reach into lay life follows within a century.
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