10. COMMERCIAL QUICKENING AND RELIGIOUS REFORM, 1050

Quiz for Contrasting Views for Chapter 10

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1. Who were “the princes” referred to by the Anonymous biographer of Henry IV when he says that the boy king came into their hands?

Henry’s brothers

The princes of Europe

The Germany aristocracy

Empress Agnes’s men

2. To what is Gregory referring in his letter of 1075 when he speaks of the “Milan affair”?

The scandal of Henry’s love affair with a woman at Milan

The scandal of Henry’s appointing the archbishop of Milan

The scandal of Henry’s marching his troops into Milan

The scandal of Henry’s wounding people in Milan

3. Who is the “Hildebrand” referred to in Henry’s response of 1076?

The archbishop of Milan

Pope Gregory VII

An adulterous monk

The Empress Agnes

4. When Lampert says that Henry IV was “absolved from the excommunication,” what does he mean?

That he was set free from the excommunication and welcomed back into the Church

That he was set free from the excommunication but would have to do penance to be welcomed back into the Church

That he was forgiven for excommunicating the pope

That he had solved the problem of excommunication