HISB61H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Investiture Controversy, Popular Piety, Catharism
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People making sense of complex world as best as they can, with whatever tools they can use. Heresy only exists where there is an orthodoxy to name it. The two are an inseparable binary, and heresy" is forever both a boundary and a fluctuating category. john arnold. Less contact in rural areas because of distance so less effects of different forms of. Members of the church tried to bring religion out to the rural areas. They were given access to the 7 sacraments: baptism, confirmation, matrimony, holy orders, extreme unction, penance, eucharist. Also allowed education of what religion should be. After investiture controversy, the priests gained more contact with rome so they may have become better educatios. The rural communities became more involved religious ideals still, church was not ultimate powers. Mendicant orders had a lot of influence in the cities. Tied up with the activities of guilds different trades could have different patron saints.
