Fiškálna politika avignonských pápežov
The Fiscal Policy of the Popes of Avignon

Summary/Abstract: The term fiscal policy of the popes of Avignon means in general exce¬ssive focusing of the popes who resided in Avignon during the fourteenth centu¬ry on the interests of the pope‘s treasure and gathering financial resources on the base of various titles not explicitly stated in the older Canon Law. Right this fiscal policy established particularly in the times of successful enforcement of the Gre¬gorian reform and related centralization in the Church led to many controversies and misunderstandings between popes and representatives of particular churches or secular authorities offended by the long term status quo. A lot of the researchers find in the above mentioned papal policy the basis for the evident worsening of the relationships between Church and state, rise of the various schisms and heresies, not excepting the reformation itself. The main goal of this article is to point out the begi¬nnings of this system in the papal Rome and its next development culminating in the times of the popes of Avignon, with consequent indication of its relevant evolution, not forgetting also the related Confess Law comment.

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