The Avignon Papacy Contested

Author : Unn Falkeid
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674982886
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Avignon Papacy Contested written by Unn Falkeid and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-21 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Avignon papacy (1309–1377) represented the zenith of papal power in Europe. The Roman curia’s move to southern France enlarged its bureaucracy, centralized its authority, and initiated closer contact with secular institutions. The pope’s presence also attracted leading minds to Avignon, transforming a modest city into a cosmopolitan center of learning. But a crisis of legitimacy was brewing among leading thinkers of the day. The Avignon Papacy Contested considers the work of six fourteenth-century writers who waged literary war against the Catholic Church’s increasing claims of supremacy over secular rulers—a conflict that engaged contemporary critics from every corner of Europe. Unn Falkeid uncovers the dispute’s origins in Dante’s Paradiso and Monarchia, where she identifies a sophisticated argument for the separation of church and state. In Petrarch’s writings she traces growing concern about papal authority, precipitated by the curia’s exile from Rome. Marsilius of Padua’s theory of citizen agency indicates a resistance to the pope’s encroaching power, which finds richer expression in William of Ockham’s philosophy of individual liberty. Both men were branded as heretics. The mystical writings of Birgitta of Sweden and Catherine of Siena, in Falkeid’s reading, contain cloaked confrontations over papal ethics and church governance even though these women were later canonized. While each of the six writers responded creatively to the implications of the Avignon papacy, they shared a concern for the breakdown of secular order implied by the expansion of papal power and a willingness to speak their minds.

Author : Unn Falkeid
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674971841
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Avignon Papacy Contested written by Unn Falkeid and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-21 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unn Falkeid considers the work of six fourteenth-century writers who waged literary war against the Avignon papacy’s increasing claims of supremacy over secular rulers—a conflict that engaged contemporary critics from every corner of Europe. She illuminates arguments put forth by Dante, Petrarch, William of Ockham, Catherine of Siena, and others.

Author : Yves Renouard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Avignon Papacy, 1305-1403 written by Yves Renouard and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joëlle Rollo-Koster
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442215348
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Avignon and Its Papacy, 1309–1417 written by Joëlle Rollo-Koster and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-08-20 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the arrival of Clement V in 1309, seven popes ruled the Western Church from Avignon until 1378. Joëlle Rollo-Koster traces the compelling story of the transplanted papacy in Avignon, the city the popes transformed into their capital. Through an engaging blend of political and social history, she argues that we should think more positively about the Avignon papacy, with its effective governance, intellectual creativity, and dynamism. It is a remarkable tale of an institution growing and defending its prerogatives, of people both high and low who produced and served its needs, and of the city they built together. As the author reconsiders the Avignon papacy (1309–1378) and the Great Western Schism (1378–1417) within the social setting of late medieval Avignon, she also recovers the city’s urban texture, the stamp of its streets, the noise of its crowds and celebrations, and its people’s joys and pains. Each chapter focuses on the popes, their rules, the crises they faced, and their administration but also on the history of the city, considering the recent historiography to link the life of the administration with that of the city and its people. The story of Avignon and its inhabitants is crucial for our understanding of the institutional history of the papacy in the later Middle Ages. The author argues that the Avignon papacy and the Schism encouraged fundamental institutional changes in the governance of early modern Europe—effective centralization linked to fiscal policy, efficient bureaucratic governance, court society (société de cour), and conciliarism. This fascinating history of a misunderstood era will bring to life what it was like to live in the fourteenth-century capital of Christianity.

Author : Focus RUZOKA
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781792830600
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Avignon Papacy and Its Return to Rome written by Focus RUZOKA and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE AVIGNON PAPACY AND ITS RETURN TO ROME is a historical book. It is all about what happened until the Pope shifted the Papal residence from Rome to Avignon in France in the fourteenth century. This period was looked at as the period of the Babylonian Captivity of the Papacy. It is a very interesting and historical nourishing book. Get it please, to know more.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 904744261X
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to the Great Western Schism (1378-1417) written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-09-30 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection presents the broadest range of experiences faced during the Schism, center and periphery, clerical and lay, male and female, Christian and Muslim, theology, including exegesis of Scripture, diplomacy, French literature, reform, art, and finance.

Author : Yves Renouard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781566196208
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Avignon Papacy written by Yves Renouard and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anonimo Romano
Publisher : Medieval and Renaissance Texts
ISBN 13 : 9781599103846
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chronicle of an Anonymous Roman written by Anonimo Romano and published by Medieval and Renaissance Texts. This book was released on 2021 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""The Chronicle of an Anonymous Roman" offers the first complete English translation of the Anonimo Romano's "Cronica." Includes an introduction to the text and its author, as well as an introduction to its fourteenth-century world"--

Author : Jennifer Mara DeSilva
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004506993
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Office of Ceremonies and Advancement in Curial Rome, 1466–1528 written by Jennifer Mara DeSilva and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-02-07 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the careers of Agostino Patrizi, Johann Burchard, and Paris de’ Grassi, who served in Rome’s Office of Ceremonies (c.1466-1528). Amid heightened competition, their diverse strategies achieved personal and institutional successes and lasting impacts on the Catholic Church.

Author : Laurie Nussdorfer
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 080189509X
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brokers of Public Trust written by Laurie Nussdorfer and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2009-11-16 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fast-growing legal system and economy in medieval and early modern Rome saw a rapid increase in the need for written documents. Brokers of Public Trust examines the emergence of the modern notarial profession—free market scribes responsible for producing original legal documents and their copies. Notarial acts often go unnoticed, but they are essential to understanding the history of writing practices and attitudes toward official documentation. Based on new archival research, Brokers of Public Trust focuses on the government officials, notaries, and consumers who regulated, wrote, and purchased notarial documents in Rome between the 14th and 18th centuries. Historian Laurie Nussdorfer chronicles the training of professional notaries and the construction of public archives, explaining why notarial documents exist, who made them, and how they came to be regarded as authoritative evidence. In doing so, Nussdorfer describes a profession of crucial importance to the people and government of the time, as well as to scholars who turn to notarial documents as invaluable and irreplaceable historical sources. This magisterial new work brings fresh insight into the essential functions of early modern Roman society and the development of the modern state.