Avignon Papacy

[@gondolacrescent5]

Many thanks to the school that’s permitted these lectures to be broadcast on You Tube and to the learned Professor who has prepared and delivered them so effectively.

[@tigerboy1966]

I don't agree with everything that RR says (I'm RC) but he knows what he's talking about and treats his audience like intelligent adults.

[@shellyvivian5116]

Wanted to add my thanks to others for these videos (and this one in particular). I teach Elementary and Middle School Church History in Australia, and recently recommended this video to my 6th grade class. They have really enjoyed it, especially, as you might imagine, the Anangi Slap and "Listen, Son"! Thanks for a great teaching tool that is clear enough even for my students.

[@shellyvivian5116]

Aboriginal history is taught - including the sad treatment they received at the hands of European settlers. Though generally more dealt with in their regular Humanities courses, the history of missions to the Aboriginal people (another checkered history) is also taught in my class. I also teach Australian church history, so they aren't only receiving European history. (I also have a large number of Asian and African students and we also look at the church on those continents.) While many people don't understand how students would find Church History useful, I have found that students have a better grasp of world history as a whole and have a better understanding of where their own Christian experience comes from.

[@nathandavis2266]

I'm a high school senior, and a member of the International Baccalaureate - this is by far the most intellectually stimulating part of my day. Thanks! Your channel is vastly under- subbed.

[@kevinmcfarley156]

Good for you. Best of luck.

[@tcironbear21]

I am really liking your way of relating information with just the right amount of storytelling. Not so much that I feel like your trying to emotionally manipulate me. Not so little that it is boring. I also like how you make Christianity feel old. Most Christians virtually behave like Jesus died in when their grandparents where children,and then sent his disciple George Washington to found America a few years later. It is like there Jesus, America, and then them. That is all that matters.

[@RyanReevesM]

Thanks, TC! Yeah I never think of myself as a storyteller, but these videos have brought some of that out of me--mostly to not be boring (as you say). And yeah, it's a pet peeve of mine, too, to feel like we only learned how to love Christ and serve him in the last several generations. Maybe that's why I was led to history as a profession...

[@tcironbear21]

Ryan Reeves It is amusing story how I realized how "unhistoried" American Christianity has become. I was watching a video similar to this style on the Eastern Othordoxy. I went to the comments to compliment it and there is was Southern Baptist woman decrying them as heathens going to Hell. In comment after comment where she tried to defend her willfully ignorant world view, it was obvious that she had no understanding of history or what had come before her.

[@benson0509]

I vote for an entire lecture on Dante! Clearly my profile picture speaks to my admiration of him.

[@mikhailv67tv]

This guy is great. I almost wish he had a test at the end.

[@Pfsif]

Was in Avignon this past may, beautiful historic city.

[@Pfsif]

The weather I'm guessing?

[@Pfsif]

It is France.

[@MikeGill87]

One note, the first husband of Joanna's wasn't Louis I (that was her 2nd husband), the first one with that gruesome death was Andrew. I'm not sure whether you've mistaken the names with her 2nd husband, or with Andrew's brother, the King of Hungary, called Louis I as well.

[@glovearm]

Love these history lessons. You're the MAN Dr. Reeves!

[@pbarsamian526]

nicely done. and i have seen a lot of documentaries on this subject.

[@AndresDjor]

Excellent! Thanks for posting this. Just a minor note: as far as I understand, the portrait shown at minute 9 is not of Phillippe IV Le Bel but of another "handsome" Philip, Charles V's dad Philip I of Castile.

[@Waqulah]

This was so amazing! Thank you

[@jamesfbarry45]

Well done. Thanks for posting.

[@tigerboy1966]

Check your notes Ryan, it was Gregory XI, not Gregory III who moved back to Rome. Urban V had briefly moved back to Rome a few years earlier but abandoned the project when the French king tried to annex Avignon. Also, by the time we get to the 1370's Avignon was a clean, modern city and a centre of learning whereas Rome was a stinking, malarial swamp plagued by mosquitos, corruption and violent mobs

[@DoubleMrE]

You mention early on that Avignon's walls are the largest and most complete in Europe, but I have always read that Carcassonne has the only complete medieval city walls remaining in Europe. Carcassonne is smaller I'm sure, but I have read many times that it has the only complete city walls. Am I misinformed?

[@miminx7807]

How does it effect the economic? to be more precise about the Avignon Papacy

[@Eusebeia7]

The 100 years war over laps the Black Death while Jeremiah repeatedly warns about famine, pestilence and the sword being the result of ungodliness under LONANG. Any thoughts on this?

[@danilee78qq]

wonderful lecture Dr, you should do a learning company video..you would be great, do you have any videos where its your voice talking? its ok if you do not, these are prefect, but sometimes its easier to connect when you can see someones eyes:) Take Care DR Danielle

[@mikhailv67tv]

Ryan do you contribute to Coursera ? I would do your courses if you did.

[@RyanReevesM]

Nothing there at the moment, I'm afraid. It's all I have to keep up here and continue making videos! :) One day down the line, maybe....

[@marshalldarcy7423]

Should have mentioned the Inquisition and the extermination of the "Spiritual Franciscans" at this time. Should have talked of Pope John 22

[@RyanReevesM]

Yeah only a survey course, and I'll either cover those topics elsewhere or in a later lecture I develop. Or else I can't cover everything, so it got left off on purpose.

[@marshalldarcy7423]

Mr Reeves Thank you for your reply. I think many underestimate the importance of the inquisition in not only forming the thought process of the west, being that this confrontation is a subtle process of determining how we think of power, and the political forces at work. You I am sure know that the French King of the time and the Bavarian King, confronted with papal power, where also playing the Inquisition card. The Cathars and the Franciscans where to some extent pawns in this game and to some extent a defining element in this game. I think more effort should be done here.

[@RyanReevesM]

Yeah the challenge of teaching anything (especially history) is what to leave off and what to include. In this case, the course is a series of 30 minute graduate lectures, and at times the dividing line between certain topics draws short of where you may think it should be. But that's not a matter of lack of effort or perspective. So, for example, the Cathari crusade is not ignored--and that's what they called it: a crusade. Instead, I deal with this issue in the second lecture on the Crusades in this same course. Also, I am planning on a full lecture on the Inquisition throughout the middle ages, and I deal with the Franco-Inquisition against the Templars in the lecture on the Papal Schism. If the lectures were an hour or longer, then these threads would have been drawn together in one sitting, but I have everything at around 30 minutes, so the experience can feel a bit more 'bite sized'. :)

[@stevennewman4090]

if at the end the cardinals elected a second pope in France, does anyone know from what line the present pope is from ie the one from Rome or from the French line.

[@kathsullivan2320]

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[@sofiacasale6728]

very well done

[@peaveawwii1]

excellent lecture. thanks

[@Bonzoli3]

And so the letter stating the knights templars were praying to a different god and when they came back and practiced usury like infidels is ignored. Yep just a king stealing wealth. Disappointed i am.

[@myothersoul1953]

9:30 Tax Churches?!!!?!!! What a great idea.

[@itzklawing3123]

my gamertag is papacy on xbox :)