I have 4 questions left on a home work assignment, please help!?

Question

What was life like for Peasants in Medieval times?Describe a typical day.
What was the beef between Pope Gregory VII and King Henry IV? What was the outcome?

Answer 1

> What was life like for Peasants in Medieval times?Describe a typical day.

Depends on the time, the place and the lord, Temporal or Spiritual. Before or after the Plague?

> What was the beef between Pope Gregory VII and King Henry IV?

The Investiture Controversy.

> What was the outcome?

As the Normans got involved, bad. Rome got sacked twice, and the Pope had to flee the angry Romans.

Answer 2

Peasants did the work assigned to them, living in the house where they had, most likely, lived all their lives. They were beholden to the lord of the manor, who in turn was beholden to the King. Most peasants worked the land of the manor, though some were household servants of the lord of the manor.

The King Henry IV you are referring to was from Germany, and came to the throne young and inexperienced. The country was weak, as the Saxons were battling Henry at the time, and he took an oath of allegience to the Pope mainly to get help. Once he was able to defeat the Saxons, he went back on his pledges and attempted to reclaim sovereignty over northern Italy. He also convened a Council at Worms where people who didn't like Gregory spoke against him and said he shouldn't be pope. Pope Gregory's retaliation was to excommunicate Henry and his counsellors and to say Henry should not be king. In other words, the usual play for political power.

Answer 3

Peasants lives were horrible back then. They lived or died by the pleasure of the king, and were no better than property. (Actually women were property, that could be traded just like a horse or mule.) King Henry wanted to be crowned Emperor and Pope Gregory refused and excommunicated him. King Henry then named a new pope and went on to fight in a civil war in Germany. After he won, his excommunication was lifted.

Answer 4

This statement: ""Divorce?!!? NOOOO. - Says the Pope. "Oh yea you robe wearing hippie!!" I DIVORCE anyways for I am King!!! - Henry""
~goes with Henry the VIII of England.

Henry the IV comes from France and increase the power of the French government.

Answer 5

1) As Hobbes once said "nasty, brutish, and short"!
2) Up at dawn to work the fields, probably for the lord of the manor. Diet of rough grains such as corn or barley, and rough bread. Drinking water was likely polluted. Work until the sun sets. Go home to where your chickens, cows, horses,and pigs (if you are lucky enough to have them) also share your living quarters.
3) From http://www.culturalcatholic.com/PopeGregoryVII.htm
"Hildebrand was born in Soana, Tuscany, between 1014 and 1028, to an artisan, Bonito, and his wife Bertha, and began his religious education in Rome at a young age in his uncle’s monastery and later became a monk himself.
"Cardinal Hildebrand was elected pope on April 22, 1073, and became Pope Gregory VII on June 30, 1073.
"With reform as the centerpiece of his pontificate, Pope Gregory VII assembled synods and issued decrees that forbade, under pain of excommunication, clerical marriage, concubinage, and simony - the buying or selling of ecclesiastical pardons and offices. He also demanded that newly-elected bishops take an oath of obedience and visit the Holy See.
"In his Dictatus papae, Pope Gregory VII decreed the supremacy of the Church of Rome over other churches and over the empire; the supremacy of clerical authority over lay authority.
"King Henry IV of Germany joined forces with the nobles against reform. In 1076, during a dispute with Pope Gregory VII, King Henry IV was excommunicated, costing him popularity with his people. The following year King Henry IV acquiesced and Pope Gregory VII lifted the excommunication.
"When Pope Gregory VII refused King Henry IV's demands to crown him emperor, King Henry IV named an imperial antipope, Pope Clement III, who reciprocated by making King Henry IV emperor. Pope Gregory VII excommunicated both King Henry IV and Pope Clement III.
"Pope Gregory VII remained neutral in the civil war that followed in Germany, but in 1079 Pope Gregory VII decreed that King Henry IV be deposed when it became clear that King Henry IV would not cooperate with the forces working for peace in the empire.
"After King Henry IV won the German civil war in 1081, he marched on Rome. Pope Gregory VII led Rome’s resistance, but in 1083 the Romans betrayed Pope Gregory VII. Pope Gregory VII moved to the Castel Sant’Angelo until he was able to flee Rome with the help of the Normans.
"Pope Gregory VII died in 1085 and was interred in Saint Matthew Church in Salerno.

Answer 6

I think it's cheating to ask others to do your homework for you. The purpose of homework is for YOU to learn something YOU did not know before. If all you do is quote what others tell you, how do you know they're telling you the truth? Why not get off the computer for awhile and read your school books so you can actually LEARN something. You might find it enjoyable!

Answer 7

1. I farm, I eat, I have sex. I sleep.
2. Divorce?!!? NOOOO. - Says the Pope. "Oh yea you robe wearing hippie!!" I DIVORCE anyways for I am King!!! - Henry
3. EXCOMMUNICATE HIM!!!! - Pope. "Well you can kiss my fat plump ***!" - King Henry.


That's more or less what happened.

Answer 8

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