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Joelle Rollo-Koster
This book traces the compelling story of the transplanted papacy in Avignon, the city mainly French popes transformed into their capital. Through an engaging blend of political and social history…
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The essays in this volume focus on the history of formalized behavior and rituals in Europe, China and Japan. Dismissing the traditional historiography centered on geographical boundaries, it compares rituals…
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Death in Medieval Europe: Death Scripted and Death Choreographed explores new cultural research into death and funeral practices in medieval Europe and demonstrates the important relationship between death and the…
This book argues that during the Middle Ages there was a pillaging problem attached to ecclesiastical interregna, that the nature of ecclesiastical elections contributed to the problem, and the problem…
Joelle Rollo-Koster (University of Rhode Island)
A new history of the Great Western Schism, which goes beyond the institutional historiography previously examined by scholars. Applying the narrative of the Schism to the socio-cultural mold of social…
Throughout its history, the papacy has engaged with the world. Volume 1 addresses how the papacy became an institution, and how it distinguished itself from other powers, both secular and…
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Addressing the history of the papacy in the longue duree, it highlights developments and the differences between the first and second millennium of the papacy. It engages with the centrality…
The papacy is commonly referred to as the world's oldest surviving institution and its capacity for survival and residual strength have fascinated historians. This Cambridge History explores how and why…
Volume 3 frames questions around the papacy's cultural influence, focusing on the influence that successive popes have had on a broad range of social and cultural developments in global societies…
This collection presents the broadest range of experiences faced during the Schism, center and periphery, clerical and lay, male and female, Christian and Muslim, theology, including exegesis of Scripture, diplomacy…
This volume provides case studies of the growth of urban and rural communities and their institutions in Languedoc and Provence in the Middle Ages. The importance of a Roman law…
