Starter quiz
- The Reform Papacy was a movement in the Church that aimed to address ______ and improve the spiritual authority of the Church.
- 'corruption' ✓
- Controversially, the ______ said that the pope had the right to depose kings and emperors.
- 'Dictatus Papae' ✓
- ______ agreed to support William's invasion of Normandy.
- 'Alexander II' ✓
- The papacy saw the English Church as needing...
- 'reform' ✓
- The Holy Roman Emperor, Henry IV was ______ after disagreeing with the Pope about who should appoint the next bishop of Milan.
- 'excommunicated' ✓
- In the German city of Worms, a Concordat agreed a compromise between the papacy and __________ V.
- William
- Henry ✓
- Stephen
- Gregory
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Exit quiz
- Monks spent long periods chanting and singing the ______ together.
- 'liturgy' ✓
- St Benedict's rules said that...
- monasteries should be self-contained ✓
- monasteries should often deal with the outside world
- monks should be silent for most of the day ✓
- monks had no need to remain silent for much of the day
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- In 1082, William of Saint-Calais replaced married church clerks with...
- 'monks' ✓
- Around 1077, Lanfranc issued his monastic...
- 'constitutions' ✓
- There were __________ Benedictine monasteries in England in 1066.
- three
- 35 ✓
- 350
- 3500
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- By the end of William’s reign, only __________ English abbots remained in office
- two
- three ✓
- four
- five
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Key learning points
- As well as his Church reforms, Lanfranc also oversaw reform of English monasteries.
- English monasteries grew in number and size under the Normans.
- The Normans introduced Cluniac monasteries to England.
- English abbots were replaced with Normans.
Common misconception
Monks were all poor.
Although individual monks gave up all their possessions, Norman monasteries were often extremely wealthy because they held very large amount of land granted to them by the king or Norman barons and knights.
Keywords
Liturgy - the prayers and rituals regularly carried out together by a religious community or religious group
Monastery - a community of monks; the term monastic and monasticism relate to monasteries
Constitution - a set of principles and legal decisions which people agree to follow
Celibate - not having sexual relationships, usually for religious reasons
Order - in this context, groups of monks or nuns who live together as a religious community, following a set of rules for that order
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