Description: Further DetailsTitle: Avignon and Its Papacy, 1309–1417Condition: NewEAN: 9781442215320ISBN: 9781442215320Publisher: Rowman & LittlefieldFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 08/20/2015Item Height: 236mmItem Length: 161mmItem Width: 24mmItem Weight: 572gLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Popes, Institutions, and SocietyISBN-10: 1442215321Description: 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.Country/Region of Manufacture: USAuthor: Joëlle Rollo-KosterGenre: HistoryTopic: Philosophy & SpiritualityRelease Year: 2015 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Avignon and Its Papacy, 1309–1417
Title: Avignon and Its Papacy, 1309–1417
EAN: 9781442215320
ISBN: 9781442215320
Release Date: 08/20/2015
Release Year: 2015
Subtitle: Popes, Institutions, and Society
ISBN-10: 1442215321
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: History
Topic: Philosophy & Spirituality
Number of Pages: 328 Pages
Publication Name: Avignon and Its Papacy, 1309-1417 : Popes, Institutions, and Society
Language: English
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2015
Subject: Demography, Christian Church / History, Christianity / Catholic, Europe / France, Europe / Western, Religious, History, Europe / Medieval
Item Height: 0.9 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 20.2 Oz
Subject Area: Religion, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Length: 9.3 in
Author: Joëlle Rollo-Koster
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover
