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…