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This is a 4 page paper which discusses the relationship between the Church and the State from the 14th century through the 16th Century in Western Europe.
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time, scholars were beginning to realize that the years following the fall of Rome had been a period of darkness and they became very unappreciative of the centuries that had
come before. However, it should be noted that that period of time, the Middle Ages were a creative period of time and the basis for the Renaissance and the Reformation.
BACKGROUND The plague that struck the European continent had fairly well exhausted itself by 1350, but it still remained endemic, as it continued to occur in some places until the
seventeenth century (Gilbert, 1970). Prior to the plague, Europe was growing without check. The population of the area stagnated and did not reach it former level until the sixteenth
century (Gilbert, 1970). However, there were other factors that played into the development of Western Europe during that time which included depressed business conditions which were a result of other
disturbed conditions of the time. The predominate religion of the time was the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church was full of abuses during this time and the general populace
was becoming more and more aware of the abuses (Gilbert, 1970). The people started a cry for formation as the citizenry realized that the church was actually more developed
that the secular governments. Priests were often criticized as being greedy and extortionate. As a result of this unrest conflicts occurred between the Catholic Church and leaders of the various
secular churches and the various sections of the governments. This resulted in the separation of the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox churches, each one claiming to be the
One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church (Gilbert, 1970). This fundamental breach never healed. REFORMATION The problem of heresy had become by the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries more serious
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