CHAPTER 11 VOCABULARY(DEFINITION) Flashcards
plague
highly contagious disease
Black Death
a form of the bubonic plague and lowered the devotion to the christian church
Muslim Turks
took over the Christian capital of Constantinople
Pope Clement V
appointed mostly French cardinals which appeared to place the papacy under the control of the French king
Pope Gregory XI
moved the papacy back to Rome in 1377
Pope Urban VI
proposed reforms that the cardinals disliked
antipope
not the true pope
Great Schism of the West
a split in the Catholic Church that developed in the late 1300s when competing groups of cardinals elected two new popes, each one claiming to be the real pope
Renaissance
the period between the end of the Middle Ages and the start of the Modern Age
Humanism
a Renaissance philosophy that emphasized the importance of the person