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Boniface VIII’s “Unam Sanctam”
Edwin Mullins’s The Popes of Avignon is an engaging account of the “Babylonian Captivity.”
J.H. Burns’s Conciliarism and Papalism is a useful collection of documents related to the 14^th– and 15^th-century debate over whether councils or popes held supreme authority in the Church.
It’s difficult to find works on John Wycliffe that aren’t from an in-your-face Protestant or Roman Catholic point of view. Ellen Caughey’s John Wycliffe is a popular work bordering on hagiography, whereas G.R. Evans’s John Wyclif: Myth and Reality is much more critical.
William of Ockham at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Imitation of Christ

Late Medieval Church – Quiz

During the Great Schism, many clergy began to argue that a(n) __________ could speak with an authority superior to any pope.
During the fourteenth century, most of the popes were of what nationality?
Following the selection of ___________ in Rome, most of the cardinals reneged and chose a competing pope in ____________, thus inaugurating the Great Schism.
In the early fourteenth century, Pope Clement V took up residence in __________, beginning what was later dubbed the ______________ of the Church.
The papal bull ____________ expressed Boniface VIII’s view that the papacy delegated political power to kings and emperors.
What fourteenth-century devotional manual is one of the most widely read books in the history of the West?
Who translated the Bible into English and rejected most of the Church’s sacraments in the late fourteenth century?
___________ was burned at the stake at the Council of Constance for his teachings on the sacrament and indulgences?

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