Crisis in the Church
Using the reading, answer all of the following questions. Please answer in your own words and don’t copy the text.
Part I. Crisis of the Later Middle Ages
1. How did Kings seek to finance the Hundred Years War?
2. How did the Pope respond to this?
3. How did the kings of England and France treat their clergy after this? Give examples
4. Philip accused the Pope of what crime? Does this make sense?
5. What did Unam Sanctam declare?
6. How did Philip respond to Unam Sanctam?
Part II. Religious Crisis
1. Where did the popes live prior to 1309? (think about it…background knowledge)
2. Why did Pope Clement V move to Avignon?
3. What is this period (1309-1376) known as?
4. While in Avignon, what did the popes focus on? What did they ignore?
5. Think about your answer to #4. Does this make sense for a pope to do? Why or why
not?
6. Which Pope brought the papacy back to Rome? Who followed him?
7. Explain in your own words what Pope Urban VI wanted to do as Pope. How did he
attempt to accomplish these things?
8. What did the cardinals do in response to Urban VI’s actions?
9. This began the _______________
10. Which countries allied with which popes, and why?
11. How did common people react to the Schism?
12. Who was John Wyclif? What did he write about?
13. What were Wyclif’s followers called? How were they different from traditional church
leaders?
14. What happened when the cardinals got together in 1409?
15. What were the objectives of the council of Constance?
16. Who was elected as Pope?
17. What did he do to reform the church?
18. “The schism and the conciliar movement…had exposed the crying need for
ecclesiastical reform, this laying the foundations for the great reform efforts of the
sixteenth century”
What can you predict might happen in the sixteenth century?