HIS243H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Pope Boniface Viii, Avignon Papacy, Pope Clement V

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The pope represents divine sovereignty, binds on earth and in heaven. Pope boniface viii astute politi(cid:272)ia(cid:374), (cid:271)ut thi(cid:374)gs were happe(cid:374)i(cid:374)g that the (cid:272)ould(cid:374)"t control. Church ended up with enormous amounts of money, and had the ability to impose order and law on all of christendom. 1260 everything to do with wills, estate, oaths, etc, fell under church law the reality was that the complicated legal and church and accounting systems involved, meant the nature of the church was changed by this centralization. It was less a spiritual organization and more of an admin machine. Skills became more useful than things of a spiritual nature. the new state of the church went against the earlier values be poor, etc. Boniface realized he had a lot of power, and in 1300 he declared the first jubilee: The church then became a model for secular power: more and more monarchs attempted to create dynastic territories used the model of centralization/institutionalism.

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