Raiding Saint Peter: Empty Sees, Violence, and the Initiation of the Great Western Schism (1378) - Couverture rigide

Rollo-Koster, Joelle

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9004165606 ISBN 13 : 9789004165601

Editeur : Brill, 2008

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Joëlle Rollo-Koster, Ph.D. (1992) in History, State University of New York at Binghamton, is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Rhode Island. She has published extensively on papal Avignon.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brill
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9004165606
• ISBN 13: 9789004165601
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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