Norman reforms to the English Church

12 questions

1. Match these people with the correct descriptions.
2. Match these words connected to religion with the correct definitions.
3. Normandy was a duchy in the north of which modern-day European country?
4. Which one of these is not a way in which the Gesta Guillelmi seeks to justify or strengthen William’s claim to the throne?
5. Which of the following best explains why historians think carefully about the claims reported in the Gesta Guillelmi?
6. Monks in Norman England followed strict rules. Which one of these were Norman monks not allowed to do?
7. Match the words with the correct definitions.
8. In 1070 William the Conqueror appointed a new Archbishop of Canterbury. What was the Archbishop’s name?
9. The Normans and the Pope disapproved of the way the Anglo-Saxon Church operated. Which of these common Anglo-Saxon practices were Normans critical of?
10. Which of these were things that Lanfranc carried out in his reform of the English Church?
11. The Normans replaced Anglo-Saxon churches and cathedrals with buildings in a style known as ___.
12. Which of these ways of increasing Norman control over England were connected to Lanfranc's Church reforms?

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