A parish priest in 1200 receives one-tenth of a farmer's grain and livestock increase for church support. Which payment is this?

A village church served a local district whose people came for worship, baptism, marriage, and burial. What was that local church district called?

In the Church hierarchy, which official supervised clergy and churches across a cathedral-centered region called a diocese?

Which office stood at the top of the Latin Church hierarchy in medieval western Europe?

When villagers received baptism, marriage rites, the Eucharist, or last rites, what category of church practice were they receiving?

Which clergy member normally had direct responsibility for a village or town church?

Benedict's rule shaped a monk's day as a balance of set worship times, reading, sleep, and what other regular activity?

Within a monastery, who was the superior that monks were expected to obey?

A monk who promised stability under Benedict's rule was promising what?

Monks gathered daily with the abbot to read a rule chapter, discuss house business, and correct faults. Which room was used?

The monastery's communal dining hall, often used while a reading was heard, was the ____.

Before printing, monks copied many books by hand in a monastery room set aside for writing. What was that room called?

Which monastery activity most directly helped preserve ancient and Christian texts before the printing press?

Schools attached to bishops' main churches trained clergy and became important urban centers of learning. What were they called?

What language gave many western European clerics and scholars a shared medium for theology, law, and copied manuscripts?

A monastery's organized collection of books could support prayer, study, and copying. What was this collection called?

When a king claimed the right to install bishops with symbols of office, reform popes attacked which practice?

Henry IV traveled to Canossa in 1077 after Gregory VII's ban. What was Henry trying to obtain?

Which sanction cut an individual off from the Church community and its sacraments?

Which papal sanction could suspend regular church services across a kingdom or region rather than target one person?

Which 1122 agreement ended the main Investiture Controversy by separating spiritual consecration from imperial regalia?

A 910 charter made a Burgundian abbey unusually free from local lay control, helping launch a reform network. Which abbey was it?

A reform begun at Cîteaux in 1098 sought simpler living and stricter observance of Benedict's rule. Which monks were these?

Franciscans and Dominicans differed from older cloistered monks because they usually did what?

Which mendicant order, confirmed in 1216, emphasized study and preaching and became active in university towns?