The Avignon Papacy began in 1309, when Pope Clement V moved the papal power from Rome to Avignon (south-east France). During this papacy, the French monarchy gained a lot of power, which resulted in corruption and greed within the church.
Raimon de Cornet, a 14th Century priest, poet and reciter from Toulouse fiercely opposed the Avignon Papacy due to its grievances and betrayal to its role as helping the common man, favouring luxury and wealth. He called bishops and Popes ignorants and pitiless and spares no hard feelings towards the clergy. The fact that he went to the extent of writing a poem, reflects how much he was against all that lust.
Now, being Dr. Martin Luther King the predominant leader of the Civil Rights Movement, he was as well a spokesperson who preached nonviolent methods of achieving social change. King would agree very much with Raimon de Cornet and his poem. They both wanted change and they both believed in nonviolent actions as a way to express their opinions or criticism with great oratory and impassioned drive.
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The poem’s author was Raimon de Cornet, a priest and poet from Toulouse, France. He wrote the poem to criticize the church, which at the time had its headquarters in Avignon, France, instead of Rome. He criticizes the pope, cardinals, and bishops for leading rich and lavish lifestyles while the poor suffered.
Martin Luther probably would have supported the poem. Although Luther lived after the author's time, he also opposed church practices such living lavishly.
