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LECTURE:
MEDIEVAL POWER

Invaders and feudalism

• 9th century invasions: Vikings, Magyars, Saracens
• Germanic culture wave
  Document: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (ca. 900-1150)
  Document: Beowulf (10th c.)
  -- Text in Old English and translation (line 53) Old English audio
• Feudalism and manorialism
• The rise of kings
  Leige lords
  Henry II and English Common Law
  

Popular Religion

Cult of saints Document: Bernard of Angers: Miracles of St. Foy (1010) Reform of monasticism Benedictines Rule of St. Benedict (from the Benedictines) today's Order of St. Benedict Cistercians: St. Bernard of Clairvaux

Rise of Papal Power: Gregory VII (1073-85) biography

• Petrine Theory:
  Dictatus Papae (1075)
• Investiture Controversy (1076-1122)
  • Document: Pope Gregory VII Bans Lay Investiture (1973)
  • Document: Letter from Emperor Henry IV to Pope Gregory VII ( 1076)

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