Format:
1 online resource (330 pages)
ISBN:
9781442215344
Series Statement:
Critical Issues in World and International History
Content:
This book traces the compelling story of the transplanted papacy in Avignon, the city mainly French popes transformed into their capital. Through an engaging blend of political and social history, the author tells the fascinating tale of a misunderstood era that brings to life the fourteenth-century capital of Christianity.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Author's Note -- Maps -- Introduction -- Notes -- Chapter One: Early Popes -- Before Clement: Boniface VIII, Philip the Fair, and Rome -- Clement V: French Puppet or Able Diplomat? -- The Past Catching Up: Boniface and the Templars -- Why Not Return to Rome? -- Centralization: John XXII -- Satanic Beginnings -- The Franciscan Poverty Debate and Its European Implication -- Beatific Vision -- Monasticization: Benedict XII -- Staying in Avi gnon -- Notes -- Chapter Two: Papal Monarchy -- How to Be Pope: The Papal Monarchy of Clement VI -- Clement VI and Rome: Cola di Rienzo -- Clement VI and Joanna of Naples -- Clement VI and Italy: Milan and Louis of Bavaria -- Clement VI: Arbiter of the Hundred Years' War -- The Arrival of the Black Death -- Clement VI: The Humanist -- Lawyer and Conqueror: Innocent VI -- The Lands of St. Peter -- The Hundred Years' War: Poitiers and Its Aftermath -- The Free Companies in Provence -- Holy Roman Empire -- Notes -- Chapter Three: Returning to Rome -- Urban V -- A Fastidious Man -- How to Eliminate the Free Companies -- The Emperor's Visit -- The Castilian Situation -- Returning to Rome -- The Last of the Avi gnon Popes: Gregory XI -- Florence and the Pope: Toward the Break -- Florence and the Pope at War -- The Interdict -- Returning to Rome -- Notes -- Chapter Four: Constructing the Administration -- Governance and Finance: Avi gnon -- Apostolic Chamber -- Chancery -- Penitentiary and Rota -- The Pope's Household -- The Administration's Mark on Avi gnon -- Cardinals -- Notes -- Chapter Five: Avignon -- Avi gnon's Governance and Administration -- Citizens and Courtiers -- Avi gnon's Urban Landscape -- Avi gnon's Parishes and Their Social Topography -- To Live in a Medieval Capital City -- Notes -- Chapter Six: The Great Western Schism and Avignon -- Why a Schism? -- The Early Years.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781442215320
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781442215320
Language:
English
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