PSYC 403 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Scholasticism, Lynn Townsend White Jr., Huldrych Zwingli

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 403
• Professor: Zbigniew Pleszewski

Document Summary

Renaissance transition from the medieval to the modern period. Effect of the plague: the black death" (1347 1350) in europe (a biological and medical holocaust that decimated the population). Around 1/3 of the european population was destroyed. Influence of the greek classics: the influence of the greek manuscripts of renaissance. At a minimum, the presence of the classics appears to have stimulated an interest in the. The papacy and authority: when temporal authority was centralized in the monarchy in. France, money was needed for government and military operations. Limited resources the monarchy began taxing the wealth of the church in france as a result of state confrontation. The period of the avignon papacy was marked by the depth of corruption. During the schism the papacy had become a political ploy, and political corruption was rampant. Although the church was reunited, the papacy never completely recovered its prestige and authority.