Overview
A Companion to the Medieval Papacy brings together an international group of experts on various aspects of the medieval papacy. Each chapter provides an up-to-date introduction to and scholarly interpretation of topics of crucial importance to the development of the papacy’s thinking about its place in the medieval world and of its institutional structures. Topics covered include: the Papal States; the Gregorian Reform; papal artistic self-representation; hierocratic theory; canon law; decretals; councils; legates and judges delegate; the apostolic camera, chancery, penitentiary, and Rota; relations with Constantinople; crusades; missions. The volume includes an introductory chapter by Thomas F.X. Noble on the historiographical challenges of writing medieval papal history. Contributors are: Sandro Carocci, Atria A. Larson, Andrew Louth, Jehangir Malegam, Andreas Meyer, Harald Müller, Thomas F.X. Noble, Francesca Pomarici, Rebecca Rist, Kirsi Salonen, Felicitas Schmieder, Keith Sisson, Danica Summerlin, and Stefan Weiß.
Full Product Details
Author: Atria Larson ,
Keith Sisson
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Volume: 70
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.789kg
ISBN: 9789004299856
ISBN 10: 9004299858
Pages: 410
Publication Date: 07 April 2016
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
A Companion to the Medieval Papacy is rare and welcome in that it offers a book accessible to readers at an entry level yet also contains serious scholarly essays, in English, with a good bibliography where readers can continue their investigations in multiple areas and at multiple levels. [...] it is worth remarking on the fact that this is a splendidly produced volume, which includes a series of good reproductions of medieval images, works of art etc., in both black-and-white and colour. Robert Sommerville, Columbia University. In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 69, No. 2 (April 2018), p. 385.
Author Information
Keith Sisson, Ph.D. (2008), University of Memphis, is director of the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program in University College at the University of Memphis. His monograph, Papal Hierocratic Theory in the High Middle Ages: From Roman Primacy to Universal Papal Monarchy (2009), examines the development of the hierocratic theory of government in the High Middle Ages, paying particular attention to the presentation of the theory during the Franco-papal conflict, 1296-1303. His primary areas of research are church and state relationships, political theory and practice, ecclesiology, cultural and intellectual history, and Scholasticism. Atria A. Larson, Ph.D. (2010), Catholic University of America, is Visiting Scholar in the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Saint Louis University. She has published translations from Latin and German, editions of Latin texts, and articles in the field of medieval intellectual and legal history. Her monograph, Master of Penance: Gratian and the Development of Penitential Thought and Law in the Twelfth Century, won a 2015 Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise.
