HIST 1010 Midterm: HIST 1010 Midterm Notes
8 Oct 2015
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Medieval society was compulsory: universal membership in the church, obligations assumed at baptism, confession (annual), followed by penance, communion (at least once a year at easter, tithe, church supervised other life events, marriage, ordination, extreme unction. Challenges to church authority: relocation of papacy to avignon (cid:224) 1309 1370, seat of the papacy was in avignon, france, pope clement v chose to move the papal court to southeastern france because of the turbulence in rome, because of philip"s role in the election of clement v, many have argued that he was pressured by philip to move the papacy to avignon, great schism (cid:224) 1378 1417, split within the catholic church, several men claimed to be the true pope, schism, rival claims to the papal chair hurt the reputation of the office was ended by the council of constance, rising monarchies: france, england and spain.
