Age of Reform: 1300-1600

1305-1377: Babylonian Captivity of the Papacy
1337-1453: Hundred Years War
1347-1351: The Black Death
1378-1415: The Great Schism
1382: John Wyclif's teachings are condemned by the Synod of London.
Nominalism vs Realism Controversy
1410: Jan Hus is excommunicated by the Archbishop of Prague.
1414: Thomas a Kempis, "The Imitation of Christ."
1415: Jan Hus is burned as a heretic.
1453: Fall of Constantinople
1492: The Spanish Inquisition orders Jews in Spain to convert or leave.
1494: Savarola's theocratic government in Florence.
1501: Erasmus of Rotterdam, "Enchiridian militis christiani" [Handbook of the Militant Christian].

The Age of Reform