Description
This book traces the compelling story of the transplanted papacy in Avignon, the city mainly French popes transformed into their capital. Through an engaging blend of political and social history Joëlle Rollo-Koster tells the fascinating tale of a misunderstood era that brings to life the fourteenth-century capital of Christianity.
Author: Joëlle Rollo-Koster
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 11/22/2017
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.80h x 6.00w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780810894990
ISBN10: 0810894998
BISAC Categories:
- History | Europe | Medieval
- Religion | History
- History | Western Europe | General
Author: Joëlle Rollo-Koster
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 11/22/2017
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.80h x 6.00w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780810894990
ISBN10: 0810894998
BISAC Categories:
- History | Europe | Medieval
- Religion | History
- History | Western Europe | General
About the Author
Joëlle Rollo-Koster is professor of medieval history at the University of Rhode Island and author of Raiding Saint Peter: Empty Sees, Violence, and the Initiation of the Great Western Schism and The People of Curial Avignon: A Critical Edition of the Liber Divisionis and the Matriculae of Notre Dame la Majour. She has been named a Chevalier of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques in recognition of her outstanding academic research in French history.