Raiding Saint Peter : empty sees, violence, and the initiation of the Great Western Schism (1378) /

Raiding Saint Peter : empty sees, violence, and the initiation of the Great Western Schism (1378) / / by Joëlle Rollo-Koster.

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Throughout the European Middle Ages, the death of high-ranking prelates was usually interwoven with violent practices. During Empty Sees, mobs ransacked bishops’ and popes’ properties to loot their movable goods. Eventually, in the later Middle Ages, they also plundered the goods of newly-elected po...

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Bibliographic Details
Superior document:Brill's series in church history, v. 32
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Rollo-Koster, Joëlle.
Year of Publication:2008
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Brill's series in church history ; d. 32.
Physical Description:1 online resource (278 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • The empty see
  • Empty see governance and the papal electoral system
  • The liturgy of the empty see
  • Looting, charity, and liturgy
  • The empty see as liminal phenomenon
  • Looting the empty see : the early chronology
  • Introducing spolia: the connection with the ancient
  • Early spoils : historiography
  • Evidence
  • Right of spoil
  • Looting the empty see : the Great Western Schism (1378)
  • Rome 1378 : quick historiography
  • Rome 1378 : background
  • Rome 1378 : "Romanum volumus papam vel omnes moriemini!"
  • Conclusion : more loot.

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