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

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  • 288 pages
  • Publisher: Brill

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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.
Raiding Saint Peter: Empty Sees, Violence, and the Initiation of the Great Western Schism (1378) and Avignon And Its Papacy, 1309–1417
Avignon And Its Papacy, 1309–1417Raiding Saint Peter: Empty Sees, Violence, and the Initiation of the Great Western Schism (1378)

  • Title

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

  • Author

    Joelle Rollo-Koster

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Brill

  • Published

    February 2008

  • Weight

    604g

  • Page Count

    288

  • ISBN

    9789004165601

  • ISBN-10

    9004165606

  • Eden Code

    4725123

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