How did secular rulers challenge papal authority in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries?

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Kendra Sanchez

21 August, 15:05

How did secular rulers challenge papal authority in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries?

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Steven Newman · Answer 1

They did it in two ways. One was that they had a political campaign called Unam Sanctum and that was supposed to weaken the pope. Another thing they did was that they created a council called the General Council who was supposed to oversee the pope which in reality meant that it was supposed to weaken him.