World History › Section K · The medieval West and the Crusades › Topic K.3
Patriarch, papacy, and the call to crusade
In the eleventh century, reformers in the Western Church set out to free it from lay control and to tame the violence of its own warriors. The same reforming popes drifted further from the patriarch of Constantinople, and in 1095 one of them answered a Byzantine plea with a call to holy war.
In this topic
- A Church in the hands of lords
- The reforming popes
- Worked example: Henry IV at Canossa
- Taming Christian warriors
- Two halves of one Church
- Missions to the Slavs
- Worked example: what happened in 1054?
- Urban II at Clermont
- Why did Urban call a crusade?
- Crusade and jihad
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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