Joelle Rollo-Koster

Gebundenes Buch

Avignon and Its Papacy, 1309-1417

Popes, Institutions, and Society

Beschreibung

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 Joëlle Rollo-Koster tells the fascinating tale of a misunderstood era that brings to life the fourteenth-century capital of Christianity.

Autor

Joe¿lle Rollo-Koster is professor of medieval history at the University of Rhode Island and author of Raiding Saint Peter: Empty Sees, Violence, and the Initiation of the Great Western Schism and The People of Curial Avignon: A Critical Edition of the Liber Divisionis and the Matriculae of Notre Dame la Majour. She has been named a Chevalier of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques in recognition of her outstanding academic research in French history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 512g
• ISBN-13: 9781442215320
• ISBN-10: 1442215321
• Artikelnr.: 42457793