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The Avignon Papacy Contested: An Intellectual History from Dante to Catherine of Siena (I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History) PDF

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by Unn Falkeid| 2017| 281 pages| 1.8| English

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The Avignon papacy (1309-1377) represented the zenith of papal power in Europe. The Roman curia’s move to southern France enlarged its bureaucracy, centralized its authority, and initiated closer contact with secular institutions. The pope’s presence also attracted leading minds to Avignon, transforming a modest city into a cosmopolitan center of learning. But a crisis of legitimacy was brewing among leading thinkers of the day. The Avignon Papacy Contested considers the work of six fourteenth-century writers who waged literary war against the Catholic Church’s increasing claims of supremacy over secular rulers-a conflict that engaged contemporary critics from every corner of Europe.Unn Falkeid uncovers the dispute’s origins in Dante’s Paradiso and Monarchia , where she identifies a sophisticated argument for the separation of church and state. In Petrarch’s writings she traces growing concern about papal authority, precipitated by the curia’s exile from Rome. Marsilius of Padua’s theory of citizen agency indicates a resistance to the pope’s encroaching power, which finds richer expression in William of Ockham’s philosophy of individual liberty. Both men were branded as heretics. The mystical writings of Birgitta of Sweden and Catherine of Siena, in Falkeid’s reading, contain cloaked confrontations over papal ethics and church governance even though these women were later canonized.While each of the six writers responded creatively to the implications of the Avignon papacy, they shared a concern for the breakdown of secular order implied by the expansion of papal power and a willingness to speak their minds.

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Author:Unn Falkeid
Publication Year:2017
ISBN:9780674971844
Pages:281
Language:English
File Size:1.8
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