Causes of Church Reforms
- priests were getting married
- bishops practiced simony- profit making from sacred things
Impacts of Church Reforms
- increased trade
- increased power for popes and kings
- began to seek adventure
Foundation for Hatred
- European Christians imposed their beliefs on Jews
Crusades
- series of wars between Christians and Muslims during the Middle Ages
- Inquisition- a former Roman Catholic tribunal for the discovery and punishment of heresy
Church Reforms
- lay investiture- appointment of bishops, abbots, and other church officials by feudal lords and vassals
- Martin Luther- German priest and professor of theology, important in the Protestant Reformation
- Cathedral- the principle church of a diocese
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