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Great Schism

noun

The period from 1378 to 1417 during which there were two papacies in the Roman Catholic Church, one in Rome and one in Avignon.

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... the genius of Jacobinism and its effects is not confined to the period in which that faction came to be divided within itself. In several, and those very important particulars, Brissot's observations apply to the whole of the preceding period before the great schism, and whilst the Jacobins acted as one body; insomuch that the far greater part of the proceedings of the ruling powers since the commencement of the Revolution in France, so strikingly painted, so strongly and so ...

— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. V. (of 12) • Edmund Burke

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