HIST 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Pope Clement V, Black Death
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The crisis of the 14th century had major lasting affects on european society in a variety of ways. The three major crisis" that changed european society are the decline of the papacy, black death and the 100. The religious crisis that can be seen during this time was the decline of the papacy. Pope clement v became pope, he was so accommodating to the french that he abandoned rome, and uprooted the papacy to avignon in france where it remained for almost the next century. Christians very much because christianity was born in rome. They were also upset because the christian church first began in rome and. Pope clement v was the bishop of rome and to be the bishop of rome and head of the church, he needed to stay in rome to be connected with the christian church. That physical connection to rome has always been very important to the christians.