Clinton Locke was a 19th century author who wrote this comprehensive history of the Great Schism, one of the most important events in the history of the Christian Church. The Age of the Great Western Schism is a thorough chronicle of the evolution of the Christian Church during the 14th century, and its thirty five chapters and 174 full length pages cover the popes of the period, the Black Death, Church councils, and the Inquisition.