Reclaiming Rome : Cardinals in the Fifteenth Century.
This book offers a new and interdisciplinary approach to the history of papal Rome, 1400-80. It argues that the College of Cardinals emerged as key agents of its renaissance because of the crises of the fifteenth century.
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Format: | eBook Electronic |
Language: | English |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Imprint: | Leiden : BRILL, 2009. |
Series: | Brill's Studies in Intellectual History Ser.
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Local Note: | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- List of illustrations
- Popes of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
- Preface
- Introduction
- PART ONE CARDINALS AND POPES
- Chapter One The crisis of the councils
- Chapter Two From three colleges to one
- Chapter Three Dignity and dress
- PART TWO CARDINALS AND ROME
- Chapter Four Restoring Rome
- Chapter Five The titular churches
- Chapter Six The allocation of titles
- Chapter Seven Property portfolios
- PART THREE CARDINALS AND ETERNITY
- Chapter Eight The St Peter's problem
- Chapter Nine St Peter's in the fifteenth century
- Chapter Ten Instructions for a good death
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index.