Diplomatic Aspects of Charles the Bold’s Relations with the Holy See
Diplomatic Aspects of Charles the Bold’s Relations with the Holy See By R.J. Walsh Bijdragen en mededelingen betreffende de geschiedenis der Nederlanden, Vol.95…
Religious Backlash Against the Pazzi Conspiracy
Had the conspiracy been successful, it would have marked not just the effective end to the house of Medici, but a sharp turn in the path of Florentine history.
The Cadaver Synod: Strangest Trial in History
One thousand, one hundred and four years ago, a criminal trial took place in Italy, a trial so macabre, so gruesome, so frightful, that it easily qualifies as the strangest and most terrible trial in human in human history.
A Crisis of Faith: The Western Schism and its Effect on the Lay Piety Movement
A Crisis of Faith: The Western Schism and its Effect on the Lay Piety Movement By Cora Copelin Distinguished Senior Thesis, Pacific University,…
Pilgrimage and its Effects on San Paolo Fuori le Mura during the Middle Ages
Pilgrimage and its Effects on San Paolo Fuori le Mura during the Middle Ages By Alisa Cotter Proceedings of the 4th Annual GRASP…
Social Choice in Medieval Europe
Social Choice in Medieval Europe By Iain McLean, Haidee Lorrey and Josep M. Colomer Electronic Journ@l for History of Probability and Statistics, Vol.4:1…
The Significance of the Coronation of Charlemagne
On Christmas Day in the year 800 A.D. Charlemagne, king of the Franks and part of the Carolingian line, was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Leo III (795-816).
Regnum Albaniae, the Papal curia, and the Western visions of a borderline nobility
Regnum Albaniae, the Papal curia, and the Western visions of a borderline nobility By Etleva Lala PhD Dissertation, CEU, Budapest College, 2008 Abstract:…
The Book Trade in the Italian Renaissance: Structure and Regulation
The Book Trade in the Italian Renaissance: Structure and Regulation By Professor Angela Nuovo, Universita di Udine 46th Annual Erasmus Lecture Given at…
Haskins Society Conference – Session 2: Historiography in the Salian Age
Haskins Society Conference – Session 2: Historiography in the Salian Age Fruitolf Michelsberg’s Chronicle, the Schools of Bamberg and the Preservation of Imperial…
The Women of Papal Avignon. A new Source: The Liber Divisionis of 1371
When the papal curia settled permanently in Avignon in 1316, a mass of immigrants flooded the city. The core of the Avignonese population, some five to six thousand natives, was augmented by thousands of newcomers.
Diseases and causes of death among the Popes
Our research indicates that 25 popes (9,5%) died of unnatural causes,most of them (18,5%) in the early period and the fewest (2,0%) in recent times.
The Relationship between the Papacy and the Jews in Twelfth-Century Rome: Papal Attitudes toward Biblical Judaism and Contemporary European Jewry
During the twelfth century, the papacy apparently encouraged commonly-held Christian and Jewish perceptions that the legendary Treasures of the Temple of Herod were in Rome, and used them to promote publicly the Church’s identification with the heritage of the biblical Jews, and to buttress papal power and authority.
Heresy and Sanctity at the Time of Boniface VIII
Heresy and Sanctity at the Time of Boniface VII By J.H. Denton Toleration and repression in the Middle Ages (2002) Introduction: Personal attacks…
The Understanding of Papal Supremacy as revealed in the Letters of Pope Gregory the Great
By the end of the sixth century, the city of Rome had been without the emperor in residence for over 250 years and itself outside the empire for a period of nearly seventy years before the disastrously liberating twenty years of war under the policies of the Emperor Justinian.
Popes and Pornocrats: Rome in the Early Middle Ages
Popes and Pornocrats: Rome in the Early Middle Ages By Lindsay Brook Foundations: The Journal of the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, Vol. 1:1…