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The Avignon papacy contested : an intellectual history from Dante to Catherine of Siena /

The Avignon papacy (1309-1377) represents the zenith of papal power in Europe. Over the approximately seven decades during which the pope and his curia sojourned in Southern France, the Church was subjected to an ambitious process of centralization. The institutional bureaucracy swelled out, and the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Falkeid, Unn (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017.
Colección:I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The eagle's flight: Dante's Paradiso VI and the Monarchia
  • Marsilius of Padua and the question of legitimacy
  • Individual freedom in William of Ockham's Breviloquium
  • Petrarch, Cola di Rienzo, and the Battle of Rome
  • The prophetic widow: Birgitta of Sweden and the Celestial Revelaciones
  • Catherine of Siena and the Mystical Body of the Church.