Monday, April 11, 2011

Chapter 9 - The Late Middle Ages

Late Medieval Church:
  • Pope Innocent III – papal power at greatest, had a lot of it
  • Late 1400's - Church seemed to be making a comeback. 
    • Council of Lyons -reunited the Eastern Church with Rome
  • Innocent III - Plentitude of Power
    • Declared saints, disposed of benefices, created centralized papal monarchy with political mission.
    • Turned church into a secular power
    • Rota Romana - papal law court
    • Reservation of benefices - papal power used to appoint church positions
    • Cathars and Walensians - appealed to biblical idea of simplicity and separation from the world College of cardinals politicized
    • Conclave created to reduce outside influence
Demise of imperial power = Roman papacy wasn't the leader of anti-imperial sentiment in Italy
  • Italian politics influenced the College of Cardinals
    • Pope Gregory IX est. conclave right after pope died to try to reduce political influence on their decisions
    • Pope Boniface VIII
      • England and France were nation states, on brink of war c. 1294
      • Clerics laicos – no taxation of clergy w/o papal approval
        • Denied by Edward I
        • Conceded right à Phillip the Fair “in emergencies”
          • England evolved into formal parliaments (Henry III & Edward I)
          • France was a centralized monarchy (Phillip IV the Fair -est. French hegemony)
    • 1300 –Jubilee Year
      • All Catholics visiting Rome had un-repented sins remitted   
    • Unum Sanctum
      • Pierre Dubois & John of Paris refute papal claims to intervene in temporal matters
      • Issued by Boniface, said temporal authority was subject to spiritual authority. 
        • Boniface was almost murdered by Nogaret (dies 1303)
      • Benedict XI excommunicates Nogaret
      • Clement V succeeds, declared Unum Sanctum diminished, hurt French authority
      • 1309 –moves papal court à Avignon
    • Avignon Papacy (1309-1377)
      • Papacy influenced by French
      • Papal taxes ext. (agnates, benefice)
      • Clement VI (indulgences)
        • Materialism and political scheming
    • Pope John XXII
      • Most powerful Avignon pope, tried to move back to Italy
      • Marsilius of Padua (Defender of Peace)
        • Independent origins & secular government
        • Spiritual crimes à eternal punishment
        • Directly challenged the pope (excommunication power)
    • Benedict XII, papacy entrenched in Avignon
    • Clement VI, cardinals = lobbyists
      • soon there was legislations restricting papal jurisdiction
    • Pragmatic Sanctum of Bourges – French church can elect own clergy w/o papal influence
    • John Wycliffe & John Huss
      • A religious movement, Lollards followed Wycliffe, Hussities followed Huss
      • Wycliffe = intellectual spokesman for rights of royalty over churches
      • Personal merit was a basis of religious authority
        • Donatism (efficacy of the church lied in performance & moral character)
      • Huss supported Wycliffe
        • Wine and bread for everyone for the eucharist, they were just wine and bread
The Great Schism & Conciliar Movement à1449
  • Pople Gregory XI moved papacy back to Rome in 1377
    • Roman cardinals elected Urban VI
    • Schism (king of France supported papacy in France_
    • French cardinals elected Pope Clement VII
      • 2POPES!!
  • Conciliar Theory: church in which representative council could regulate the axns of Pope
  • Council of Pisa – both elected a new pope, Alexander V, but neither pope stepped down
    • 3 POPES!!!
  • Council of Constance
    • Sarcosancta: new pope Martin V
  • Council of Basel
    • Hussies presented 4 articles of Prague:
      • 1. Giving laity bread AND wine
      • 2. Free, itinerant preaching
      • 3. Exclusion of clergy from secular offices & property ownage
      • 4. Punishment of clergy w/ mortal sins
        • (all were accepted except #3)
    • Council of Basel collapsed
    • Pope Pius II – papal bull exerabilis, condemned appeals to councils
Consequences:
  • Devoted greater religious responsibility à laity & secular governments
  • Secular control up
  • Kings got power over church
Medieval Russia
  • Prince Vladimir of Kiev chose Greek orthodoxy for Russia’s religion
  • Successor, Yaroslav the Wise made Kiev politically & culturally magnificent
    • After death, 3 cultural groups
      • 1. Great Russians
      • 2. White Russians
      • 3. Little Russians (Ukrainians)
    • Gov. combined monarchy & democracy
    • Freemen v. slaves (former prisoners of war)
  • Mongol Rule
    • Mongol armies swept China, Islamic world & Russia
    • Ghengis Khan invaded in 1223, & Kiev later fell to the Khan dynasty
    • Russian cities became dependent on Golden Horde (part of Mongols) Islam influence
    • Mongol rule ended in 1480
    • Education up, humanism, artistic & cultural revolutions

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