Clement VI : the pontificate and ideas of an Avignon pope

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Clement VI : the pontificate and ideas of an Avignon pope

Diana Wood

(Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought / edited by G.G. Coulton, 4th ser., 13)

Cambridge University Press, 1989

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Bibliography: p. 216-243

Includes index

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Description

Which of the two sides of Clement prevailed the 'official' or the personal? The book attempts to answer this question by examining his ideas and actions in connection with some of the major issues of the reign: for example, his attempts to solve the problem of the 'usurping' emperor, Louis of Bavaria, through the appointment of Charles of Bohemia (Charles IV); to deal with a crisis in the Hundred Years War between France and England; to check Islamic expansion and to heal the Greek Schism; to curb the oligarchic challenge of those who thought that the papacy should be at Rome rather than at Avignon. Clement was a great orator and the book is based partly on his sermons, many of which are unpublished. It is the only study of an Avignon pope in English.

Table of Contents

  • List of illustrations
  • Preface
  • List of abbreviations
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Clement VI's conception of the papal office
  • 3. The Renaissance Pope and Nova Roma
  • 4. Propriissima sedes beati Petri: the problem of Old Rome
  • 5. Creaturae nostrae: Pope and Cardinals
  • 6. Regnum gloriosum: the Kingdom of France
  • 7. Rex Romanorum: the way of adjustment
  • 8. 'Outside the Church there is no salvation'
  • 9. Conclusion
  • Appendices
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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