HIST 1001 Lecture : Nov 18 Lecture E4
Document Summary
Used for evidence of land rights for centuries. Not very useful for getting sense of population, only looking at heads of households and leaves out some large cities (london, winchester) number of manors in land/ land rights. Higher clergy from elite families: some lower class have potential to be clergy. Religious officials can be lords: bishops, abbots, abbesses, abbesses can have patronage rights. College of cardinals: emperor henry iii; pope leo ix (1049-1054, henry appoints pope to reform church, previously: roman nobles; holy roman emperor, roman emperor thought they should be able to appoint pope because. Rome is in their territory: college of cardinals chooses pope, hre some small say. Other reforms: clerical marriage, mandate celibacy for priests, simony, buying and selling of church offices. Assertion of papal power vs. kings and other clergy: spiritual authority is more important than secular. Papal legate humbert of silva candida, patriarch michael cerularius.