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The Avignon papacy contested : an intellectual history from Dante to Catherine of Siena /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Falkeid, Unn (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017.
Series:I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history.
Subjects:
Catholic Church > Public opinion > History > To 1500.
Papacy > History > 1309-1378.
Popes > Temporal power.
Europe > Intellectual life.
To 1500
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The eagle's flight: Dante's Paradiso VI and the Monarchia
  • Marsilius of Padua and the question of legitimacy
  • Individual freedom in William of Ockham's Breviloquium
  • Petrarch, Cola di Rienzo, and the Battle of Rome
  • The prophetic widow: Birgitta of Sweden and the Celestial Revelaciones
  • Catherine of Siena and the Mystical Body of the Church.