Directory of Western Schism Resources

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The Western Schism was a forty year long dispute which split Europe as to who the true Pope was which was finished by the council of Constance in 1418.

Subcategories

• Council of Constance

Resources in This Category

• Manifesto of the Revolting Cardinals

  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/grtschism1.html
  Extracted version from the Medieval Sourcebook.

• The Decree Excecrabilis 1459

  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/p2-execrabilis.html
  By this decree Pope Pius II struck at the Concilar movement, and lablled as "erroneous and detestable" one of the central ideas of the Conciliarists-the right of appeal from pope to general council. From the Medieval Sourcebook.

• University of Paris and the Schism

  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/grtschism2.html
  Report of a commission set up in 1393 by the French King on how best to end the schism. From the Medieval Sourcebook.

• Western Schism

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13539a.htm
  Article from the Catholic Encyclopedia.

 

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