Chapter 13.4 Study Questions

Chapter 13.4 Study Questions
1. Why were excommunication and interdiction so feared? Do
you think it likely that popes used this fear to their advantage?
2. Why could the church count on support from the peasants?
3. What was the underlying question involved in Otto’s
relationship with the church?
4. Why did the bishops change sides in the controversy between
Henry IV and the pope?
5. Why might Frederick I used the name Holy Roman Empire
instead of Roman Empire of the German Nation?