HIST-338 Lecture Notes - Lecture 41: Indulgence, Papal States, Pope Urban Vi
24 Nov 2020
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From 1378 until 1417, when the dispute was finally resolved, there were two papacies one in rome and another in avignon. Each had its own college of cardinals, its own corps of court officials, its own moneymaking apparatus. And each, ordained and consecrated its own order of bishops. Two separate churches were in the making, each regularly anathematizing the other and courting support from secular rulers by offering blessings, indulgences, praise, and a share of ecclesiastical revenues. As the first two rivalpopes died, each church selected a sucessor, continuing the split into a second and third generation. The stakes were high, the popes and their underlings looked for support wherever they could find it among europe"s elites. Resolving the schism was difficult, for each side of the dispute could legitimately claim to have been canonically selected by the. The jurisdictional problem was critical, since its resolution would establish a precedent for all future disputes within the church.
