Avignon and its papacy, 1309-1417 : popes, institutions, and society
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Avignon and its papacy, 1309-1417 : popes, institutions, and society
Rowman & Littlefield, c2015
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With the arrival of Clement V in 1309, seven popes ruled the Western Church from Avignon until 1378. Joelle Rollo-Koster traces the compelling story of the transplanted papacy in Avignon, the city the popes transformed into their capital. Through an engaging blend of political and social history, she argues that we should think more positively about the Avignon papacy, with its effective governance, intellectual creativity, and dynamism. It is a remarkable tale of an institution growing and defending its prerogatives, of people both high and low who produced and served its needs, and of the city they built together.
As the author reconsiders the Avignon papacy (1309-1378) and the Great Western Schism (1378-1417) within the social setting of late medieval Avignon, she also recovers the city's urban texture, the stamp of its streets, the noise of its crowds and celebrations, and its people's joys and pains. Each chapter focuses on the popes, their rules, the crises they faced, and their administration but also on the history of the city, considering the recent historiography to link the life of the administration with that of the city and its people. The story of Avignon and its inhabitants is crucial for our understanding of the institutional history of the papacy in the later Middle Ages. The author argues that the Avignon papacy and the Schism encouraged fundamental institutional changes in the governance of early modern Europe-effective centralization linked to fiscal policy, efficient bureaucratic governance, court society (societe de cour), and conciliarism. This fascinating history of a misunderstood era will bring to life what it was like to live in the fourteenth-century capital of Christianity.
Table of Contents
Author's Note
Maps
Introduction
Notes
Chapter One: Early Popes
-Before Clement: Boniface VIII, Philip the Fair, and Rome
-Clement V: French Puppet or Able Diplomat?
-The Past Catching Up: Boniface and the Templars
-Why Not Return to Rome?
-Centralization: John XXII
-Satanic Beginnings
-The Franciscan Poverty Debate and Its European Implication
-Beatific Vision
-Monasticization: Benedict XII
-Staying in Avignon
-Notes
Chapter Two: Papal Monarchy
-How to Be Pope: The Papal Monarchy of Clement VI
-Clement VI and Rome: Cola di Rienzo
-Clement VI and Joanna of Naples
-Clement VI and Italy: Milan and Louis of Bavaria
-Clement VI: Arbiter of the Hundred Years' War
-The Arrival of the Black Death
-Clement VI: The Humanist
-Lawyer and Conqueror: Innocent VI
-The Lands of St. Peter
-The Hundred Years' War: Poitiers and Its Aftermath
-The Free Companies in Provence
-Holy Roman Empire
-Notes
Chapter Three: Returning to Rome
-Urban V
-A Fastidious Man
-How to Eliminate the Free Companies
-The Emperor's Visit
-The Castilian Situation
-Returning to Rome
-The Last of the Avignon Popes: Gregory XI
-Florence and the Pope: Toward the Break
-Florence and the Pope at War
-The Interdict
-Returning to Rome
-Notes
Chapter Four: Constructing the Administration: Governance and
-Personnel 149
-Governance and Finance: Avignon
-Apostolic Chamber
-Chancery
-Penitentiary and Rota
-The Pope's Household
-The Administration's Mark on Avignon
-Cardinals
-Notes
Chapter Five: Avignon: The Capital and Its Population
-Avignon's Governance and Administration
-Citizens and Courtiers
-Avignon's Urban Landscape
-Avignon's Parishes and Their Social Topography
-To Live in a Medieval Capital City
-Notes
Chapter Six: The Great Western Schism and Avignon
-Why a Schism
-The Early Years
-Continuation
-Toward a Solution
-Effects and Results
-Notes
Conclusion
Notes
Additional Bibliography
-1: Early Popes
-2: Papal Monarchy
-3: Returning to Rome
-4: Constructing the Administration
-5: Avignon: The Capital and Its Population
-6: The Great Western Schism and Avignon
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