By exploring communication and social practices employed during negotiations at the papal court, this volume sheds light on a wide range of sources for studying the high and late medieval papacy00Analyzing the terminology and practice of the?stilus curiae? in documents from all …
"The book challenges the received view that the development of Papal authority during this period simply reflected the 'Absolutism' of secular governments of the European Ancien Regime. It examines the multiple commitments of the Popes of this period. Analytic in structure, cove…
"The book challenges the received view that the development of Papal authority during this period simply reflected the 'Absolutism' of secular governments of the European Ancien Regime. It examines the multiple commitments of the Popes of this period. Analytic in structure, cove…
"This monograph offers a full inventory and analysis of all of the extant correspondence between the bishops of Hispania and Rome from the third to the seventh century. No such study has been executed in any language. The study intends to enlighten the reader on how the bishops …
"In 476 AD, the last of Rome's emperors, known as "Augustulus" was deposed by a barbarian general, the son of one of Attila the Hun's henchmen. With the imperial vestments dispatched to Constantinople, the curtain fell on the Roman empire in Western Europe, its territories divid…
Introduction -- Urbi et orbi -- Humanists, Printers, and Others -- Sixtus IV and his Pamphlet Wars -- Broadsides in Basel -- The Holy Face, Imprinted and in Print -- Refugee Relics -- Kissing the Papal Foot -- Brand Julius -- Conclusion. "This work of history examines how the R…
This is a revised edition of C.H. Lawrence's classic study of relations between the papacy and England, from the conversion of England by St Augustine in 597 to the eve of the Reformation.
