Europe leading to the Renaissance

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Europe leading to theRenaissance
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Monastery/Abbey
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Popes v. Kings

• Pope religious/political authority
• owned land in/around Rome (papal states)
• Over time bishops/abbots vassals to lords
• Chosen for political, not spiritual reasons
• Popes took more power used
• Excommunication kick people out of church

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Church in High Middle Ages

• Sacraments
• How a person received Gods grace taught as
  necessary for salvation
• Mary, mother of Jesus
• highest saint
• relics
• physical objects from the saints worthy of
  worship
• (piece of cross, head of John t. B.)
• Pilgrimage to churches/monasteries that housed
  relics
• (Canterbury Thomas a Becket)
• New orders of monks
• Franciscan followed Francis of Assisi vow of
  absolute poverty
• Dominican followed Dominic de Guzman vowed to
  fight heresy (denying beliefs)
• Inquisition founded as Church court to fight
  heresy (famous Spanish Inquisition)

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Franciscan and Dominican Monks
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Decline of Church Power

• Political ambitions of popes gt clashes w/kings
• Conflict between pope and king of France
• king of France got French pope elected
• 1305-1377 popes lived in Avignon, France
• Pope Gregory XI moved papacy back to Rome
• Next pope Italian French elected own pope
• Papal Schism
• 1378-1417 had 2 popes (a French and Italian)
• Finally a council was called to depose popes
• new pope elected and followed
• Weakened authority of Church and pope
• This made people QUESTION the Catholic church for
  the first time
• Jan Hus Czech reformer who called for end to
  church corruption- burned as a heretic

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