1. Honors 4/11 You will discuss the influence and reforms of the Church using your notes and grpahic organizers to identify social, political, and economic effects.

2. Daily life The Church was the center of towns and villages
No meat on Fridays, mass on Sundays
Church ran hospitals and cared for the poor
Recorded births, performed marriages, conducted burials

3. Political life Church leaders both lords and vassals
Served as advisors to illiterate kings
Canon law followed before king’s law
Those who disobeyed could be excommunicated
Continued disobedience results in interdict

4. Inquisition Attempts to stop heresy
Anyone suspected could plead guilty, be punished, accepted back in Church
Refusal to confess ended in torture or burning at the stake

5. Cluny 910 AD Duke of Aquitaine founds monastery in Cluny
Wanted to only be subject to the Pope
Strictly follow Benedictine rule
By 1000 AD there were more than 300 houses under Cluny leadership

6. Reforms Pope Gregory VII Marriage of Priests
Selling of Church offices, simony
Lay investiture

7. Friars Similar to monks except that friars traveled to preach
Dominic = Dominicans
Francis of Assisi = Franciscans