Del 32 i serien Brill's Series in Church History

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

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2008-02-06
Mått160 x 240 x 18 mm
Vikt622 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieBrill's Series in Church History
Antal sidor288
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004165601

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PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. The Empty Seea. Empty See Governance and the Papal Electoral Systemb. The Liturgy of the Empty Seec. Looting, Charity, and Liturgy2. The Empty See as Liminal Phenomenon3. Looting the Empty See: The Early Chronology a. Introducing Spolia: The Connection with the Ancientb. Early Spoils: Historiographyc. Evidenced. Right of Spoil4. Looting the Empty See: The Great Western Schism (1378)a. Rome 1378: Quick Historiographyb. Rome 1378: Backgroundc. Rome 1378: “Romanum Volumus Papam Vel Omnes Moriemini!”Conclusion: More LootWorks Cited and BibliographyIndex

"[...] the book presents a careful, engaging, and often brilliant presentation of both traditions and specific events". Alison Williams Lewin, Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 62, No. 1 (Spring 2009), pp. 197-198. "This is a study rich in detail that deals with fascinating episodes in the history of the church. It offers many detailed and convincing readings of important sources and is successful in both surveying vast amounts of material stretching over many centuries and zeroing in on the origins of the Great Schism as one crucial part of the great complex of ideas tied to ritual looting and pillaging". Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, University of Pittsburgh. In: The Medieval Review, 08.12.06. “Rollo-Koster’s study is undeniably exhaustive and fascinating”. Natacha-Ingrid Tinteroff, University of Paris II, Panthéon-Assas. In: The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 96, No. 2 (April 2010).