The Problem of Subjection: The University of Toulouse, Royalism, and Papalism in The France of Charles VI
R. N. Swanson
In the early years of fifteenth century, European universities achieved what was probably height their influence within Western Church, an accorded final sanction by independent representation at two general councils Pisa (1409) and Constance (1414-18). Both these assemblies had been summoned in hope terminating Great Schism, division Latin Church which erupted with rival elections Urban VI Clement VII as popes 1378. During course subsequent debates seeking a resolution to dispute, members taken prime role formulating theories intended find way out dilemma having popes, each supposedly legitimate. Their scope for concrete, action was, however, limited: whatever aspirations on wider stage medieval exist narrower confines individual political entities, most part monarchies, whose rulers own conceptions appropriate place scholars scheme things.
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