1. Chapter 12: The Decline of Church Prestige (McKay pp. 392-96)  I. The Decline in Church Prestige –Pax Catholica –Investiture Controversy (1075-76) Gregory VII vs. Henry IV Confession @Canossa Concordat of Worms (1122) –Innocent III (1198-1216); The Roman Catholic Secular Bureaucracy

2. The Decline in Church Prestige  I. Stage One: Boniface VIII vs. Philip IV “The Fair”  *Phil 4’s decision to tax the clergy –Pope on the Move –Philip Arrests Bernard Saisset

3. The Decline in Church Prestige –Bull Ausculti Fili “Listen, My Son” (1301) –Unam Sanctam (1302) –Guillaume Nogaret and Sciarra Colonna and the “Crime at Angani” –Boniface VIII’s Death  II. Stage Two: The Babylonian Captivity II (1305-77) –The Avignon Papacy (France)

4. The Decline in Church Prestige –Clement V –Clement VI – sale of indulgences; simony; “I would sell a bishopric to a donkey if the donkey had money.” –Petrarch describes the Avignon Papacy –III. The Beginning of a Reform Movement (Pre-Reformation)

5. Decline in Church Prestige –Marsiglius of Padua (Defensor Pacis, 1324) –John Wycliffe/Lollards –John Hus/Hussites –*St. Catherine of Siena – Letters, lobbies Pope Gregory XI back to Rome  IV. The Great Schism (1378-1417) –Pope Urban VI – elected by coercion –Pope Clement VII – Cardinals go back to Avignon –The Western World chooses sides and watches

6. Decline of Church Prestige  V. The Conciliar Movement –3 Main Purposes End the schism End Church Corruption Create Church Council with Parliamentary qualities to check Papal absolutism –Council of Pisa (1409) –Council of Constance (1414-17)*** Sigismund (HRE) Schism Ends, Martin V Elected, Hus Burned

7. Decline of Church Prestige –What’s Left??? 1) End of Conciliar Movement – NOPE; nothing accomplished; 2)Efforts to curb Church Abuses – NOPE; It got Worse 3)Papal Wake-up Call (Nah!!!) Renaissance Popes

8. Decline of Church Prestige Renaissance Popes: You haven’t seen the stench of true corruption  BIG PICTURE: –A foundation for Reformation? (YUP!) –Universal Church – Signed its death warrant –Feudal Cooperation of Church and State: one down, or in the process of one down, one to go (17 th -19 th centuries)