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15th-century Catholicism

  • Western SchismThe year 1309 marked the beginning of a seventy-year period when the papal court resided in Avignon, France. Philip IV of France exerted significant pressure…
  • ConciliarismThe year 1378 marked the beginning of a crisis that fractured the Catholic Church. Two men claimed to be the true pope, one residing in Rome and the other in…
  • Council of ConstanceThe year 1378 marked a fracture in the Catholic Church that would last thirty years. Pope Gregory XI returned to Rome from Avignon in 1377, but his death…
  • Renaissance PapacyIn 1420, the papacy returned to Rome under Pope Martin V. This event marked a shift after decades of absence during the Western Schism.