| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 410 pages) : illustrations |
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Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition ; 70 |
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Brill's companions to the Christian tradition ; volume 70.
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| Contents |
A Companion to the Medieval Papacy: Growth of an Ideology and Institution; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Figures and Tables; Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Introduction; 1 Narratives of Papal History; Part 1: Popes and Princes, Polemic and Propaganda; 2 Pro-Papacy Polemic and the Purity of the Church: The Gregorian Reform; 3 Popes as Princes? The Papal States (1000-1300); 4 Papal Imagery and Propaganda: Art, Architecture, and Liturgy; 5 Popes over Princes: Hierocratic Theory; Part 2: Law and Judgement; 6 Popes and Canon Law; 7 Papal Decretals |
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8 Papal Councils in the High Middle AgesPart 3: Administration Abroad and at Home; 9 The Omnipresent Pope: Legates and Judges Delegate; 10 The Curia: Camera; 11 The Curia: The Apostolic Chancery; 12 The Curia: The Apostolic Penitentiary; 13 The Curia: The Sacra Romana Rota; Part 4: Beyond the Latin Church; 14 Relations with Constantinople; 15 The Medieval Papacy, Crusading, and Heresy, 1095-1291; 16 Missionary Activity; Appendix: Chronology of Key Pontificates, Events, and Works; Select Bibliography; General Index (Names of People, Places, and Councils) |
| Summary |
"A Companion to the Medieval Papacy brings together an international group of experts on various aspects of the medieval papacy. Each chapter provides an up-to-date introduction to and scholarly interpretation of topics of crucial importance to the development of the papacy's thinking about its place in the medieval world and of its institutional structures. Topics covered include: the Papal States; the Gregorian Reform; papal artistic self-representation; hierocratic theory; canon law; decretals; councils; legates and judges delegate; the apostolic camera, chancery, penitentiary, and Rota; relations with Constantinople; crusades; missions. The volume includes an introductory chapter by Thomas F.X. Noble on the historiographical challenges of writing medieval papal history."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 354-399) and index |
| Subject |
Papacy -- History.
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Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
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RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Ecclesiology.
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Church history -- Middle Ages
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Papacy
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Papst
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sisson, Keith (Keith David), editor
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Larson, Atria A., editor.
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| ISBN |
9789004315280 |
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9004315284 |
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