The Great Western Schism, 1378–1417: Performing Legitimacy, Performing Unity. Joëlle Rollo-Koster. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. xiv + 406 pp. $125

[...]borrowing from social, economic, cultural, and anthropological methodologies, scholars have asked how the schism was received, challenged, and felt among not only the religious and civil power players but also among the people. In far less brutal terms, the French Church twice subtracted its obedience from the Avignon pope by withholding tax revenue. Rollo-Koster sees these events of a piece, although the worst that was said of a pope was that even though he was a usurper acting tyrannically, deposition and not murder was the solution despite some early military maneuvering.