Rome and the Invention of the Papacy

Rome and the Invention of the Papacy

Author: Rosamond McKitterick

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-06-25

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 1108836828

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The first full study of the most remarkable history of the early popes and their relationship with Rome, the Liber pontificalis.


Court and Politics in Papal Rome, 1492–1700

Court and Politics in Papal Rome, 1492–1700

Author: Gianvittorio Signorotto

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-03-21

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1139431412

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This 2002 book attempts to overcome the traditional historiographical approach to the role of the early modern papacy by focusing on the actual mechanisms of power in the papal court. The period covered extends from the Renaissance to the aftermath of the peace of Westphalia in 1648 - after which the papacy was reduced to a mainly spiritual role. Based on research in Italian and other European archives, the book concentrates on the factions at the Roman court and in the college of cardinals. The sacred college came under great international pressure during the election of a new pope, and consequently such figures as foreign ambassadors and foreign cardinals are examined, as well as political liaisons and social contacts at court. Finally, the book includes an analysis of the ambiguous nature of Roman ceremonial, which was both religious and secular: a reflection of the power struggle both in Rome and in Europe.


Byzantine Rome and the Greek Popes

Byzantine Rome and the Greek Popes

Author: Andrew J. Ekonomou

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2007-01-26

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 0739133861

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Byzantine Rome and the Greek Popes examines the scope and extent to which the East influenced Rome and the Papacy following the Justinian Reconquest of Italy in the middle of the sixth century through the pontificate of Zacharias and the collapse of the exarchate of Ravenna in 752. A combination of factors resulted in the arrival of significant numbers of easterners in Rome, and those immigrants had brought with them a number of eastern customs and practices previously unknown in the city. Greek influence became apparent in art, religious ceremonial and liturgics, sacred music, the rhetoric of doctrinal debate, the growth of eastern monastic communities, and charitable institutions, and the proliferation of the cults of eastern saints and ecclesiastical feast days and, in particular, devotion to the Theotokos or Mother of God. From the late seventh to the middle of the eighth century, eleven of the thirteen Roman pontiffs were the sons of families of eastern provenance. While conceding that over the course of the seventh century Rome indeed experienced the impact of an important Greek element, some scholars of the period have insisted that the degree to which Rome and the Papacy were 'orientalized' has been exaggerated, while others argue that the extent of their 'byzantinization' has not been fully appreciated. The question has also been raised as to whether Rome's oriental popes were responsible for sowing the seeds of separatism from Byzantium and laying the foundation for a future papal state, or whether they were loyal imperial subjects ever steadfast politically, although not always so in matters of the faith, to the reigning sovereign in Constantinople. Finally, there is the important issue of whether one could still speak of a single and undivided imperium Roman christianum in the seventh and early eighth centuries or whether the concept of imperial unity in the epoch following Gregory the Great was a quaint and fanciful fiction as East and West, ignoring and misunderstanding one another, began to go their separate ways. Byzantine Rome and the Greek Popes provides a guide through this complicated and often contradictory history.


Rome Has Spoken

Rome Has Spoken

Author: Maureen Fiedler

Publisher: Crossroad Publishing

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13:

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A fascinating compendium of official statements from popes and councils--together with commentary from contemporary scholars--that reveals the historic evolution of Roman Catholic teaching.


Rome in America

Rome in America

Author: Peter R. D'Agostino

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 9780807855157

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For years, historians have argued that Catholicism in the United States stood decisively apart from papal politics in European society. Drawing on previously unexamined documents from Italian state collections and newly opened Vatican archives, Peter D'Agostino paints a starkly different portrait.


On the Donation of Constantine

On the Donation of Constantine

Author: Lorenzo Valla

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9780674030893

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Valla (1407-1457) was the most important theorist of the humanist movement. His most famous work is the present volume, an oration in which Valla uses new philological methods to attack the authenticity of the most important document justifying the papacy's claims to temporal rule.


The Rome of Pope Paschal I

The Rome of Pope Paschal I

Author: Caroline Goodson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-06-03

Total Pages: 409

ISBN-13: 0521768195

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A exploration of Paschal I's building campaign that illuminates the relationship between the material world and political power in medieval Rome.


Papal Bull

Papal Bull

Author: Margaret Meserve

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2021-08-03

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 142144044X

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An exciting interdisciplinary study based on new literary, historical, and bibliographical evidence, this book will appeal to students and scholars of the Italian Renaissance, the Reformation, and the history of the book.