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The Age of Chivalry - Europe in the central middle ages - How successful were attempts to reform the Church in the period 1000-1250.
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The Age of Chivalry: Europe in the central middle ages Peter Lawn How successful were attempts to reform the Church in the period 1000-1250 The underlying aim of Church reform in the period 1000-1250 at least in terms of its rhetoric was to return the Catholic Church to the princilpes and practices of early Christianity. In practice this meant incresing the level of religious discipline and elimanating the abuses that existed in the Church itself. The reform of the Church in this period has two distinct phases. First of these was what have been called the "Gregorian reforms"1 of the eleventh century. They were centred principly on the papacy and the higher ecalons of the Church. The main aim of these reforms was to free the Church from lay control and put an end to the practice of Simony and Nichantilism. These aims were linked together in a number of ways. Simony was...
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