Council of Constance
At a glance:
- Series: Chronology of European History
- Categories: Government and Politics, Religion, Ethics, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest
- Subcategories: Christianity, Christians, Churches, Catholic Church, Catholics
- Curriculum: Italian History, German History, Medieval History/Middle Ages, French History
- Geographical Location: Switzerland
- Date: 1414-1418
Article abstract: The Council of Constance ends the Great Schism within the Catholic Church, but fails to institute basic reforms, especially the sharing of papal powers with regular assemblies of churchmen, and sparks Hussite revolt in Bohemia.
Summary of Event
In the early fourteenth century European public life seemed to be unraveling. There had been divisions in the Roman Church before, but the Great Schism that began in 1378 was worse than any previous contest of pope and antipope. After the Council of Pisa met in 1408 in an effort to remove both...
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