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Communicating Papal Authority in the Middle Ages book cover

1st Edition

Communicating Papal Authority in the Middle Ages

Edited By Minoru Ozawa, Thomas W. Smith, Georg Strack Copyright 2023
222 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book bridges Japanese and European scholarly approaches to ecclesiastical history to provide new insights into how the papacy conceptualised its authority and attempted to realise and communicate that authority in ecclesiastical and secular spheres across Christendom. Adopting a broad, yet cohesive, temporal and geographical approach that spans the Early to the Late Middle Ages, from Europe... Read more

Introduction

Minoru Ozawa, Thomas W. Smith, and Georg Strack

Part I

Representations of Papal Authority

1. Authority at a Distance: Popes, their Media, and their Presence Felt in the Frankish Kingdom

Shigeto Kikuchi

2. Imitatio Christi in Papal Synodal Sermons, 1095–1274

Georg Strack

3. John XXII as a Wavering Preacher: The Pope’s Sermons and the Norms of Preaching in the Beatific Vision Controversy

Yuichi Akae

4. Franciscan Identity and Iconography in the Assisi Tapestry commissioned by Pope Sixtus IV

Alessandro Simbeni

Part II

Structural Restrictions and Challenges to Papal Authority

5. Crisis and Antagonism: Contending Popes as a Challenge to Papal Authority

Harald Müller

6. Papal Communication and the Fifth Crusade, 1217–1221

Thomas W. Smith

7. ‘Having one little wolf at the papal court is not enough’: The Limits of Papal Authority in Milanese Affairs in the Mid-Fifteenth Century

Jessika Nowak

Part III

Papal Authority on the Edges of Christendom

8. Why did a Viking King meet a Pope? Cnut’s Imperial Politics, Scandinavian Commercial Networks, and the Journey to Rome in 1027

Minoru Ozawa

9. Papal Contact with the Mongols: Means of Communication in the Thirteenth Century

Mamoru Fujisaki

10. Dei et ecclesiae inimicus: A Correspondence between Pope Gregory IX and John III Batatzes

Koji Murata

11. Medieval Heretics in the East: A Heresiological Label for Bosnian Bogomils/Patarenes in the Thirteenth Century

Hisatsugu Kusabu

12. The Papacy and Crusading in the Far North? A Forgotten Religious Frontier of Medieval Latin Christendom

Takahiro Narikawa

Biography

Minoru Ozawa is Professor of Medieval History at Rikkyo University, Japan.

Thomas W. Smith is Keeper of the Scholars and Head of Oxbridge Admissions (Arts and Humanities) at Rugby School, UK.

Georg Strack is Professor of Medieval History at Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany.

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