 The encounter at Reims in October 1119 is considered the ""end and turning point of royal penance in Medieval Europe"".During the negotiations on the solution of the ban, Henry V found it "hard, even unbearable" to submit to a reconciliation ritual and meet the Pope bare-footed.After his father's walk to Canossa in 1077, the ideas of penitence and the personal exposure within one's social status could no longer be reconciled by another papal ban, as the intrinsic meanings symbolized subordination to the Pope.