Communicating papal authority in the middle ages / edited by Minoru Ozawa, Thomas W. Smith and Georg Strack.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • London ; New York : Routledge, [2023]
  • ©2023
Description
1 online resource (223 pages)

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Series
Studies in Medieval History and Culture [More in this series]
Summary note
This book bridges Japanese and European scholarly approaches to ecclesiastical history to provide new insights into how the papacy conceptualised its authority and attempted to realise and communicate that authority in ecclesiastical and secular spheres across Christendom.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on print version record.
Contents
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Series Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • PART I: Representations of Papal Authority
  • 1 Authority at a Distance: Popes, Their Media, and Their Presence Felt in the Frankish Kingdom
  • 2 Imitatio Christi in Papal Synodal Sermons, 1095-1274
  • 3 John XXII as a Wavering Preacher: The Pope's Sermons and the Norms of Preaching in the Beatific Vision Controversy
  • 4 Franciscan Identity and Iconography in the Assisi Tapestry Commissioned by Pope Sixtus IV
  • PART II: Structural Restrictions and Challenges to Papal Authority
  • 5 Crisis and Antagonism: Contending Popes as a Challenge to Papal Authority
  • 6 Papal Communication and the Fifth Crusade, 1217-21
  • 7 'Having one little wolf at the papal court is not enough': The Limits of Papal Authority in Milanese Affairs in the Mid-Fifteenth Century
  • PART III: Papal Authority on the Edges of Christendom
  • 8 Why Did a Viking King Meet a Pope?: Cnut's Imperial Politics, Scandinavian Commercial Networks, and the Journey to Rome in 1027
  • 9 Papal Contact with the Mongols: Means of Communication in the Thirteenth Century
  • 10 Dei et ecclesiae inimicus: A Correspondence between Pope Gregory IX and John III Batatzes
  • 11 Medieval Heretics in the East: A Heresiological Label for Bosnian Bogomils/Patarenes in the Thirteenth Century
  • 12 The Papacy and Crusading in the Far North?: A Forgotten Religious Frontier of Medieval Latin Christendom
  • Index.
ISBN
  • 1-00-336117-X
  • 1-000-83986-9
  • 1-003-36117-X
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