Pope

When Popes Were Emperors – The Clash between Henry and Gregory In the year 1073, Hildebrand of Sovana (an Italian city) became Pope Gregory VII. The clash between papacy and emperor’s authority in (what we would today call) Germany, was already evident for quite some time. The Emperor Henry IV was 23 years old. One of the first few measures implemented by Gregory were, a ban on secular authority to appoint clergy (the lay investiture) and the ostracizing of some of the members of Henry’s…

commandment’s. The pope prevented the call of free council, so as to prevent the reformation of the church, and showing how much he neglects his power as a holy man. The third wall also indicates how it was shown and taught that only the pope can make major decisions and make the most money due to his status. Here is supposed to be the holiest and most loyal to the scripture, but yet is the one abusing the power for wealth and greed. Something the scripture preaches against. The pope makes it…

in the day kings and emperors were actually not the only rulers that consolidated their power in the high Middle Ages; popes also did, and that was through a series of measures that would make the church more independent of secular control. “Under the leadership of a series of reforming popes in the eleventh century, the church tries to end this practice” (p.267). It was the popes’ efforts that were sometimes challenged by the medieval kings and emperors, in which the wealth of the church came…

wide are of land, and many feudal lords felt closer ties to the Pope than to their King. Several items led to a decline in feudalism by the end of the Middle Ages. The Black Death or plague killed hundreds of thousands in Europe. This decreased the number of serfs available to work the land and support the lords. The Crusades also distracted the lords from managing their lands. The feudal system was further weakened as the Pope called on lords to recruit people for the holy wars in the…

During the time of declining organization and importance of the Roman Catholic Church Pope Innocent, the Third called a meeting of the fourth Lateran Council in 1215. There were a huge number of Bishops, Abbots and envoys from several European Kingdoms. The issues addressed at the council were along the lines of making the church more godly and spiritual, and addressing the problem of heresy. Pope Innocent considered heresy a serious problem and he wanted absolute authority over the church…

church can give salvation. Luther included this in his thesis to describe how God has the true power within the Church, not the pope or clergymen. Before the Reformation period and the Black Death, many people blindly followed the church. After seeing the cruelty of death and splitting of Christianity and Roman Catholics, people began to turn against the church. The pope was the most powerful at the time when many people thought he was essentially a God walking on here and respected him like a…

CHAPTER 5 1. Discuss the significant events that had a key role in strengthening the role of the papacy. When Charlemagne was crowned by the Pope on Dec. 25, 800，it was a key role in strengthening the role of the papacy. When Charlemagne was crowned people told to say “To Charles Augustus, crowned by God, great and peace-giving emperor of the Romans, life and victory” three times. It represented a strategic alliance between the papacy's gradually expanding influence and a political power that…

actually fled the Vatican after Pope Julius canceled his commission for Julius’s tomb and did not want to go back. However, he was eventually forced back and commissioned by Pope Julius to paint the Sistine Chapel. He was most likely coerced into painting it because Bramante, the architect, basically said that Michelangelo would not be good enough for the task. He mocked Michelangelo, saying that he would only make a fool of himself and fall out of favor with the Pope…

When Pope Paul V made the decision of placing Venice under interdict in 1606, the Catholic Church’s slow but steady decline since the end of the Middle Ages became more rapid and apparent to both the secular leaders and common people of Europe. Paul V was initially concerned about laws that restricted the clergy’s right to acquire land (de Vivo 157), and tensions reached a breaking point when a cardinal and bishop were jailed for violating these laws (“Paul V”). The doge and Senate of Venice…

The papal bull ‘Unam Sanctum’ by Pope Boniface VII in 1302 was an attempt by the pope to assert papal authority in a time of conflict with the power of King Phillip “the fair” of France. The separation of church and kings had never been completely separate but this conflict brought the issue to the fore. Boniface was attempting to hold on to papal authority in a time when ‘temporal’ or Kingly power was rising and steadily overlapping with the generally accepted spiritual sphere of authority. He…