Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction: 1. The rise of the papal power; 2. The popes at Avignon; Book I. The Great Schism. 1378–1414: 1. Urban VI, Clement VII, and the affairs of Naples. 1378–89; 2. Clement VII. Boniface IX. Religious movements in Oxford and Paris. 1389–94; 3. Boniface IX. Benedict XIII. Attempts of France to heal the Schism. 1394–1404; 4. Innocent VII. Benedict XIII. Troubles in Italy and France. 1404–6; 5. Gregory XII. Benedict XIII. Negotiations between the rival popes. 1406–9; 6. The Council of Pisa. 1409; 7. Alexander V. 1409–10; 8. John XXIII. 1410–14; Book II. The Council of Constance. 1414–18: 1. The Council of Constance and John XXIII. 1414–15; 2. Deposition of John XXIII. 1415; 3. Religious movements in England and Bohemia; 4. John Hus in Bohemia. 1398–14; 5. The Council of Constance and the Bohemian reformers. 1414–16; 6. Sigismund's journey and the Council during his absence. 1415–16; 7. Council of Constance and the election of Martin V; 8. Martin V and the reformation at Constance. End of the Council. 1417–18; Appendix.

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Mandell Creighton's five-volume work on the papacy during the Renaissance was first published between 1882 and 1894.