The Avignon Papacy Contested : : An Intellectual History from Dante to Catherine of Siena / / Unn Falkeid.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Falkeid, Unn,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)

Unn Falkeid considers the work of six fourteenth-century writers who waged literary war against the Avignon papacy’s increasing claims of supremacy over secular rulers—a conflict that engaged contemporary critics from every corner of Europe. She illuminates arguments put forth by Dante, Petrarch, William of Ockham, Catherine of Siena, and others.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- 1. The Eagle’s Flight: Dante’s Paradiso VI and the Monarchia -- 2. Marsilius of Padua and the Question of Legitimacy -- 3. Individual Freedom in William of Ockham’s Breviloquium -- 4. Petrarch, Cola di Rienzo, and the Battle of Rome -- 5. The Prophetic Widow: Birgitta of Sweden and the Revelaciones -- 6. Catherine of Siena and the Mystical Body of the Church -- Conclusion -- Chronology -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index