Debating papal history, c. 250-c. 1300 : responsive government and the medieval papacy / D.L. d'Avray.
| Author/creator | D'Avray, D. L. author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025. |
| Copyright Date | ©2025 |
| Description | xi, 330 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Constantine and the papacy -- The canon of the Bible -- A late antique decretal and the Carolingian Church -- Gelasius I and the idea of hierarchy -- The episcopal and monastic systems -- Marriage of priests in the mid-eighth century -- An eighth-century questionnaire sent to the apostolic see -- The Donation of Constantine and its afterlife -- Privilege for Offa of England and his queen -- Nicholas I reports on his deposition of two archbishops -- Spiritual kinship, marriage and baptism in the late Carolingian era -- Bad Latin in the tenth century papal entourage -- John XIII raises Magdeburg to metropolitan status, as asked by the emperor Otto I -- An early eleventh-century attempt to launch a crusade -- The pope, the archbishop of Canterbury, and a man who had killed his son -- Encyclical on the papal reform council of 1059 -- Dictatus papae of Gregory VII -- Concordat of Worms -- Bastard sons of priests -- Reform legislation and the complexity of the social world -- Baptism in the second decretal age -- Early papal indulgences -- Vernacular Bible reading -- Templars as victims -- Monastic exemption in the thirteenth century -- Lay patronage as an ecclesiastical system -- Rival metropolitans -- Papal provisions -- The papacy and lepers -- The French monarchy and the papacy in the late thirteenth century -- Boniface VIII as 'symphoniste'. |
| Abstract | "Through a series of case studies with translated supporting documents, D.L. d'Avray offers a fresh reinterpretation of papal history from the third to the thirteenth century. He argues that papal authority was not imposed from the top but emerged through responses to resolve tensions between subsystems, both ecclesiastical and lay"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-323) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion D'Avray, D. L. Debating papal history, c. 250-c. 1300 1 Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, [2025] 9781009597494 |
| LCCN | 2025015699 |
| ISBN | 9781009597524 |
| ISBN | 1009597523 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 9781009597500 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 1009597507 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (electronic publication) |
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