excommunication

Excommunication is cutting someone off by not talking to them or associating with them. Excommunixation has been very important throughout history because it has affected many nations. One great example of excommunication is in Western Europe when there were two popes, one in France and one in Rome. The two popes did not agree to who was the rightful pope, so they excommunicated each other. This is important because it not only effected the faithful Christians, but all of the people in France and Rome because thses people were not allowed to interact either.Textiles that would have been made weren't and that meant there was nothing to trade. Excommunication led to some bad things, and this particular case showed to Europenas that maybe the Church had gotten a little to power hungry.

Pope's palace in Avignon, France http://z.about.com/d/goeurope/1/0/9/j/1/avignon-popes-palace-5.jpg Created by Charlie Baker Oct. 23, 2008 Edited by Allie Pinosky 10.23.08