Format:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9789047433118
Series Statement:
Brill eBook titles 2008
Content:
Preliminary Materials /J. Rollo-Koster -- Introduction /J. Rollo-Koster -- Chapter One. The Empty See /J. Rollo-Koster -- Chapter Two. The Empty See As Liminal Phenomenon /J. Rollo-Koster -- Chapter Three. Looting The Empty See: The Early Chronology /J. Rollo-Koster -- Chapter Four. Looting The Empty See: The Great Western Schism /J. Rollo-Koster -- Conclusion More Loot /J. Rollo-Koster -- Works Cited And Bibliography /J. Rollo-Koster -- Index /J. Rollo-Koster.
Content:
Throughout the European Middle Ages, the death of high-ranking prelates was usually interwoven with violent practices. During Empty Sees, mobs ransacked bishops’ and popes’ properties to loot their movable goods. Eventually, in the later Middle Ages, they also plundered the goods of newly-elected popes, and the cells of the Conclave. This book follows and analyzes the history of this violence, using a methodology akin to cultural anthropology, with concepts such as liminal periodization. It contends that pillaging was attached to ecclesiastical interregna, and the nature of ecclesiastical elections contributed to a pillaging ‘problem.’ This approach allows for a fresh reading and re-contextualization of one of the greatest political crises of the later Middle Ages, the Great Western Schism
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-256) and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004165601
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9004165606
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789004165601
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/ej.9789004165601.i-267
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