Reimagining Christendom : : Writing Iceland's Bishops into the Roman Church, 1200-1350 / / Joel D. Anderson.

With its expanding legal system and its burgeoning throngs of lawyers, legates, and documents, the papacy of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries has often been credited with spearheading a governmental revolution that molded the high medieval church into an increasingly disciplined, uniform, and...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
VerfasserIn:
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:The Middle Ages Series
Online Access:
Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.)
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction. Ecclesiastical Predicaments at the Edge of the World
  • Chapter 1 Envisioning the Roman Church in the Age of Innocent III, Páll Jónsson, and Sverrir Sigurðarson
  • Chapter 2 Irregular Sanctity at the Limits of Ecclesiastical Law
  • Chapter 3 Bishop Guðmundr’s Hail Mary Imagining and Suspending Papal Government in Medieval Iceland
  • Chapter 4 Choreographing the Crusades in the Archbishopric of Niðaróss
  • Chapter 5 The Powers and Perils of Documents in the Life of Bishop Lárentíus Kálfsson
  • Conclusion. Imagining Iceland’s Place
  • Appendix 1 The Bishops of Iceland to c. 1350
  • Appendix 2 Bishops’ Sagas Discussed in This Book
  • Glossary
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments