HISTORY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION I
HISTORY 101
Topic Thirteen:  The High Middle Ages;  Religion and Intellectual Development,  1000-1300

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Identifications:  Pope Nicholas II, Investiture Conflict, Lay Investiture, Innocent III, Benedictine Monasteries, Cluniac Monasteries, Cisterians, pilgrimages, Pope Leo I, Gregory VII, Concordat of Worms, Avignon, Carthusians, Cathars, Franciscans, Dominicans, Peter Abelard, troubadours,  Hildegard of Bingen, Simony, John XII,   Notre Dame Cathedral, Inquisition Trials, St. Francis of Assisi, Transubstantiation, University, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Wolfram van Eischenbach, Dante Alighieri,  Divine Comedy, Romanesque Architecture,  Gothic Architecture, Twelfth Century Renaissance

Essay
1.  Adalbero of Laon characterized medieval society as "those who worked, those who fought, and those who prayed."  Is this an accurate depiction of medieval society?
2.  How did Leo IX go about reforming the papacy?  Why was this necessary?

2.  Discuss the roots of the doctrine of the separation of church and state as they emerged in the Middle Ages.  What forces and events contributed to this development? 

Judith G. Coffin and Robert C. Stacey, Chapter 9