Papacy
Who is Clement V?
This King of France played a key role in the movement of the Popes to Avignon.
Who is Philip IV, aka, Philip the Fair
"Therefore, we, with the counsel and advice of prelates, great noblemen of our kingdoms, and other persons of learning and wisdom of our Council, having taken deliberation about this matter, resolve to order the said Jews and Jewesses of our kingdoms to depart and never to return or come back.
Who are Ferdinand and Isabella, and what is their Edict of the Expulsion of the Jews?
This bishop brought about the conversion of the Franks.
Who is St. Remigius?
This scientific discovery in the 13th century by the Chinese would be the precursor to modern war-fare.
What is gun powder?
Who is Gregory XI?
Who is Charles VII?
"Alas! How many memorable families, how many vast heritages, how many notable fortunes died without a lawful heir!"
Who is Giovanni Boccaccio and his work titled Preface to the Ladies?
These are the first four Mendicant Orders
Who are the Franciscans, Dominicans, Augustinians, and the Carmelites?
This political council in France, first called by Philip the Fair, would mark the beginning of the French Revolution
What is the Estates-General?
Otto Colonna was elected to end the Great Western Schism, through unity under one pope.
Who is Martin V?
He refused to pay fealty to the king of France, Philip VI, for his Duchy of Aquitaine, directly causing the 100 Years War.
Who is Edward III?
"Wherefore the clergy declare you to be schismatic, an unbeliever in the unity and authority of the Church, and apostate and obstinately erring from the faith."
What is the Trial Record of St. Joan of Arc?
Who is Pope Peter Celestine VI?
The landing on Utah beach, as the English did before them, in the year 1944.
What is D-Day?
Three of six popes who dwelt in Avignon rather that Rome.
Who are Popes John XXII, Benedict XII, Clement VI, Innocent VI, Urban V, Gregory XI?
He began the Mongolian Empire through his conquest of Northern China.
Who is Temujin, aka Genghis Khan?
"O my tongue and lips, how can I relate what happened there to the icon because of your sins? While the apostates were anxious to go elsewhere for more plunder, one of the infidels, extended his befouled hands, hacked the icon into four pieces with an axe. Casting lots, each received his equal share and its accompanying ornament."
Who is Doukas, and his work Decline and Fall of Byzantium?
What is lay investiture?
Following the humanist ideas from the Renaissance, these ideas of humanism developed into political theory in the 18th century?
What is the Enlightenment?
This pope overturned the judgement of the court of Rouen regarding St. Joan of Arc in 1456.
Who is Pope Callixtus III?
This Ottoman Sultan conquered the last Eastern Roman Empire stronghold of Constantinople, effectively ending their rule of over 1,100 years.
Who is Mehmet II?
The representation of the universal Catholic Church which "accepts, approves and commends in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, the cession, renunciation and resignation made on behalf of the lord who was called Gregory XII..."
What are the Select Decrees from the Council of Constance?
His handwriting was so illegible that he had to have scribes write as he dictated his book, one of the greatest on Church Theology.
Who is St. Thomas Aquinas?
What is Nationalism?