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Chivalry and the Roman Catholic Church

• Organization and Structure

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REVIEW

• Questions on Feudalism?
• Questions on Manorialism?

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Feudalism
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The Age of Chivalry

• Violent and dangerous time period
• Knights were professional solders main
  obligation was to serve in battle and protect the
  weak
• Rewarded with land and devoted lives to war

• Chivalry a complex set of ideals demanded
  that a knight fight bravely in defense of 3
  masters
• His feudal lord
• His Heavenly Lord
• His Lady

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Becoming a Knight

• Sons of nobles began training at an early age for
  knighthood NOT hereditary nobility
• Page at age 7 boys sent to another lord to be
  trained
• Squire at 14 they act as a servant to a knight
• Knight- at 21 they become a knight and gain
  experience in local wars and tournaments

Tournaments (BIG for CULTURE) mock battles
that combined recreation and combat training
(bloody competitions)
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Castles

• Stone castles were encircled by massive walls and
  guard towers
• Home to lord and lady, their family, knights,
  solders, and servants
• A fortress of defense
• Protection of manor
• Defending a Castle?

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Castles and Keeps
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Culture of Chivalry

• Epic Poems
• Song of Roland
• Troubadours
• Women lives of nobles versus peasants
• Eleanor of Aquitaine
• (she is so COOL!)

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Power of the Church

• ROME DECLINES! CHURCH is the UNIFYING FORCE in
  EUROPE!
• Missionaries succeeded in spreading Christianity
• Created a system of justice to guide peoples
  conduct Cannon Law the law of the church
• POWER Excommunication and interdict the
  denial of the 7 sacraments (baptism, last rights)
• Adapted to rural conditions by building
  monasteries religious communities (also
  educational centers)
• Rules est. by St. Benedict / became educated
  communities

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Organization of the Church

• 4th Century organization
• Priests manage a PARISH ?
• Bishops control a DIOCESE ?
• Archbishop leads several Diocese ?
• POPE Bishop of Rome (Saint Peter)
• Papal power increased by Pope Gregory I
• Monks and Monestaries Benedictine Rule
• Nuns and Abbesses

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Kings, Popes and the Church

• Otto I of the Germans
• Lay Investiture Gregory VII and Henry IV
• What happened at the Concordat of Worms?
• Frederick I (Barbarossa)
• Germany NOT unified!