COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS

1. What do the Domesday survey and commenda contracts suggest about the basis of the medieval economy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries? What had changed from earlier periods? What remained the same?

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   What do the Domesday survey and commenda contracts suggest about the basis of the medieval economy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries? What had changed from earlier periods? What remained the same?
2. How do you think Pope Gregory VII would have reacted to William I’s relationship with the English church, as described in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and why?

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   How do you think Pope Gregory VII would have reacted to William I’s relationship with the English church, as described in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and why?
3. In what ways do both the investiture conflict between Henry IV and Pope Gregory VII and the First Crusade reflect the new power of the medieval papacy?

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   In what ways do both the investiture conflict between Henry IV and Pope Gregory VII and the First Crusade reflect the new power of the medieval papacy?
4. Look closely at the language Urban II and Ibn al-Athīr use to describe crusaders and Muslims. What similarities and differences do you see? What does this suggest about how the two sides viewed each other?

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   Look closely at the language Urban II and Ibn al-Athīr use to describe crusaders and Muslims. What similarities and differences do you see? What does this suggest about how the two sides viewed each other?