The Schism
Seminar Questions
- Was the papacy strengthened or weakened during its residence in Avignon?
- Was 'Conciliarism' ever a feasible option for governing the medieval church?
Documents
Introductory Reading
Barber, , 108-111
Bartlett, . No readings.
Waley and Denley, , 112-131, 235-238
e-resources
- The Internet Medieval Sourcebook has sections on , (the Great Schism and conciliarism), and .
- A medieval map of Rome
from a manuscript of the period (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS Ital. 81, folio 18). The illustration shows Rome personified as widow grieving the loss of the papacy. - Map showing support for Avignon (red) and Rome (blue) during the Great Schism (before 1409).
- A of Lollard influence in England and Scotland.
- '' from James M. Dean , ed., Poems of Political Prophesy (Kalamazoo, MI, 1996)
Further Reading (See also reading for The Medieval Church: I)
General
Crowder, C.M.D. (ed. and trans.), Unity, Heresy and Reform, 1378-1460: the Conciliar Response to the Great Schism (London, 1977)
Thomson, J., Popes and Princes 1417-1517: Politics and Polity in the Late Medieval Church (London, 1980)
The Avignon Papacy
Menache, Sophia, Clement V (Cambridge, 1998) []
Mollat, Guillaume, The Popes at Avignon, 1305-1378 (New York, 1965)
Renouard, Yves, The Avignon Papacy, 1305-1403, trans. Denis Bethell (London, 1970)
Wood, Diana, Clement VI: The Pontificate and Ideas of an Avignon Pope (Cambridge, 1989)
The Great Schism and Conciliarism
Antony Black, 'Popes and councils' in , pp. 65 - 86.
Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Renate, Poets, Saints and Visionaries of the Great Schism, 1378 -1417 (2006).
Swanson, R.N., Universities, Academics and the Great Schism (1979).
Tierney, Brian, (Cambridge, 1955)
Ullmann, Walter, The Origins of the Great Schism (London, 1948)
