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Book The Papal State Under Martin V

Download or read book The Papal State Under Martin V written by Peter Partner and published by London, British School at Rome. This book was released on 1958 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Malatesta of Rimini and the Papal State

Download or read book The Malatesta of Rimini and the Papal State written by P. J. Jones and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-17 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed investigation into the origin, development and character of the Maltesta government and the causes of its overthrow.

Book The History of the Papal States  from Their Origin to the Present Day

Download or read book The History of the Papal States from Their Origin to the Present Day written by John Miley (D.D.) and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History of the Papal States  from Their Origin to the Present Day

Download or read book The History of the Papal States from Their Origin to the Present Day written by John Miley and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reclaiming Rome

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  • Author : Carol M. Richardson
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9004171835
  • Pages : 553 pages

Download or read book Reclaiming Rome written by Carol M. Richardson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifteenth century was a critical juncture for the College of Cardinals. They were accused of prolonging the exile in Avignon and causing the schism. At the councils at the beginning of the period their very existence was questioned. They rebuilt their relationship with the popes by playing a fundamental part in reclaiming Rome when the papacy returned to its city in 1420. Because their careers were usually much longer than that of an individual pope, the cardinals combined to form a much more effective force for restoring Rome. In this book, shifting focus from the popes to the cardinals sheds new light on a relatively unknown period for Renaissance art history and the history of Rome. Dr. Carol M. Richardson has been awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize (2008) in the field of History of Arts.

Book The Papacy and the Levant  1204 1571

Download or read book The Papacy and the Levant 1204 1571 written by Kenneth Meyer Setton and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1976 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third of four volumes which trace the history of the later Crusades and papal relations with the Levant from the accession of Innocent III (in 1198) to the reign of Pius V and the battle of Lepanto (1566-1571). From the mid-fourteenth century to the conclusion of his work, the author has drawn heavily upon unpublished materials, collected in the course of more than twenty "palaeographical journeys" to the Archivio Segreto Vaticano and the Archivi di Stato in Venice, Mantua, Modena, Milan, Siena, Florence, and the Archives of the Order of the Hospitallers at Malta. Volumes 1, II, and IV are available at www.amphilsoc.org.

Book Pope Eugenius IV  the Council of Basel and the Secular and Ecclesiastical Authorities in the Empire

Download or read book Pope Eugenius IV the Council of Basel and the Secular and Ecclesiastical Authorities in the Empire written by Joachim W. Stieber and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-03-07 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Origins of the State in Italy  1300 1600

Download or read book The Origins of the State in Italy 1300 1600 written by Julius Kirshner and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996-06 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beginnings of the state in Europe is a central topic of contemporary historical research. The making of such early modern Italian regional states as Florence, the kingdom of Naples, Milan, and Venice exemplifies a decisive turn in the state tradition of Western Europe. The Origins of the State in Italy, 1300-1600 represents the best in American, British, and Italian scholarship and offers a valuable and critical overview of the key problems of the emergence of the state in Europe. Some of the topics covered include the political legitimacy of the aborning regional states, the changing legal culture, the conflict between church and state, the forces shaping public finances, and the creation of the Italian League. The eight essays in this collection originally appeared in the Journal of Modern History. Contributors include Roberto Bizzocchi, Giorgio Chittolini, Trevor Dean, Riccardo Fubini, Elena Fasano Guarini, Aldo Mazzacane, Anthony Molho, and Pierangelo Schiera. This volume will appeal to historians, historical sociologists, and historians of political thought.

Book The Longman Companion to Renaissance Europe  1390 1530

Download or read book The Longman Companion to Renaissance Europe 1390 1530 written by Stella Fletcher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new Companion is the ideal reference guide. It fills a gap by providing an authoritative but accessible reference on political, economic, religious, social, as well as cultural developments in this crucial period. It contains information on all major topics including the church, war and diplomacy, civic life, learning and letters, printing, the economy, science and technology, the arts, across Europe and the wider world.

Book A Social and Religious History of the Jews  Late Middle Ages and the era of European expansion  1200 1650

Download or read book A Social and Religious History of the Jews Late Middle Ages and the era of European expansion 1200 1650 written by Salo Wittmayer Baron and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1967-06 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do smokers claim that the first cigarette of the day is the best? What is the biological basis behind some heavy drinkers' belief that the "hair-of-the-dog" method alleviates the effects of a hangover? Why does marijuana seem to affect ones problem-solving capacity? Intoxicating Minds is, in the author's words, "a grand excavation of drug myth." Neither extolling nor condemning drug use, it is a story of scientific and artistic achievement, war and greed, empires and religions, and lessons for the future. Ciaran Regan looks at each class of drugs, describing the historical evolution of their use, explaining how they work within the brain's neurophysiology, and outlining the basic pharmacology of those substances. From a consideration of the effect of stimulants, such as caffeine and nicotine, and the reasons and consequences of their sudden popularity in the seventeenth century, the book moves to a discussion of more modern stimulants, such as cocaine and ecstasy. In addition, Regan explains how we process memory, the nature of thought disorders, and therapies for treating depression and schizophrenia. Regan then considers psychedelic drugs and their perceived mystical properties and traces the history of placebos to ancient civilizations. Finally, Intoxicating Minds considers the physical consequences of our co-evolution with drugs -- how they have altered our very being -- and offers a glimpse of the brave new world of drug therapies.

Book The Papal Prince

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  • Author : Paolo Prodi
  • Publisher : CUP Archive
  • Release : 1987
  • ISBN : 9780521322591
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book The Papal Prince written by Paolo Prodi and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1987 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Morning Star

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  • Author : G. H. W. Parker
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2006-02-06
  • ISBN : 1597525634
  • Pages : 249 pages

Download or read book The Morning Star written by G. H. W. Parker and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2006-02-06 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a generation when Western Christendom was convulsed by crisis in its religious leadership and its kingdoms were divided in political rivalries, John Wycliffe stood out with his torrid denunciation of abuses in the Christian Church. More works have been written about him than any other medieval Englishman, and yet to explain what he sought to do or achieved paradoxically remains difficult. The greater part of his life was spent in a university career and academic disputation, and very little is known of the details of this period before he emerged into public affairs. For the last dozen years or so before his death, he became entangled in English ecclesiastical and secular politics, and in this career eventually gave his attention more exclusively to demands for the reform of doctrines and abuses. --from chapter 2

Book Papal Banking in Renaissance Rome

Download or read book Papal Banking in Renaissance Rome written by Francesco Guidi Bruscoli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benvenuto Olivieri was a Florentine banker active in Rome during the first half of the sixteenth century. A self made man without any great family patrimony, he rose to prominence during the pontificate of Pope Paul III, becoming involved with a variety of papal enterprises which allowed him to get to the heart of the mechanisms governing the papal finances. Amassing a considerable fortune along the way, Olivieri soon built himself a role as co-ordinator of the appalti (revenue farms) and became one of the most powerful players in the complex network that connected bankers and the papal revenue. This book explores the indissoluble link that had developed between the papacy and bankers, illuminating how the Apostolic Chamber, increasingly in need of money, could not meet its debts, without farming out the rights to future income. Utilising documents from a rich corpus of unpublished sources in Florence and Rome, Guidi Bruscoli unravels the web of financial connections that bound together Florentine and Genoese bankers with the papacy, and looks at how money was raised and the appalti managed.

Book Papal Patronage and the Music of St  Peter s  1380   1513

Download or read book Papal Patronage and the Music of St Peter s 1380 1513 written by Christopher Alan Reynolds and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new picture of music at the basilica of St. Peter's in the fifteenth century emerges in Christopher A. Reynolds's fascinating chronicle of this rich period of Italian musical history. Reynolds examines archival documents, musical styles, and issues of artistic patronage and cultural context in a fertile consideration of the ways historical and musical currents affected each other. This work is both a historical account of performers and composers and an examination of how their music revealed their cultural values and educational backgrounds. Reynolds analyzes several anonymous masses copied at St. Peter's, proposing attributions that have biographical implications for the composers. Taken together, the archival records and the music sung at St. Peter's reveal a much clearer picture of musical life at the basilica than either source would alone. The contents of the St. Peter's choirbook help document musical life as surely as that musical life—insofar as it can be reconstructed from the archives—illumines the choirbook. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1995.

Book The Renaissance in Rome

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  • Author : Charles L. Stinger
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 1998-09-22
  • ISBN : 9780253212085
  • Pages : 482 pages

Download or read book The Renaissance in Rome written by Charles L. Stinger and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1998-09-22 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Probes the basic attitudes, the underlying values and the core convictions that Rome's intellectuals and artists experienced, lived for, and believed in from Pope Eugenius IV's reign to the Eternal City in 1443 to the sacking of 1527.

Book Electing the Pope in Early Modern Italy  1450 1700

Download or read book Electing the Pope in Early Modern Italy 1450 1700 written by Miles Pattenden and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Electing the Pope in Early Modern Italy, 1450-1700 offers a radical reassessment of the history of early modern papacy, constructed through the first major analytical treatment of papal elections in English. Papal elections, with their ceremonial pomp and high drama, are compelling theatre, but, until now, no one has analysed them on the basis of the problems they created for cardinals: how were they to agree rules and enforce them? How should they manage the interregnum? How did they decide for whom to vote? How was the new pope to assert himself over a group of men who, until just moments before, had been his equals and peers? This study traces how the cardinals' responses to these problems evolved over the period from Martin V's return to Rome in 1420 to Pius VI's departure from it in 1798, placing them in the context of the papacy's wider institutional developments. Miles Pattenden argues not only that the elective nature of the papal office was crucial to how papal history unfolded but also that the cardinals of the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries present us with a unique case study for observing the approaches to decision-making and problem-solving within an elite political group.

Book The Rise and Decline of the Medici Bank  1397 1494

Download or read book The Rise and Decline of the Medici Bank 1397 1494 written by Prof. Raymond de Roover and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-12 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The roots of modern capitalism go back to the Italian banking system of the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. In the fifteenth century, the Medici Bank succeeded in overshadowing its competitors, the Bardi and the Peruzzi, who were the giants of the fourteenth century, and grew into a vast establishment with branches in most of the large cities of Western Europe. A study of its operations is essential to an understanding of the economic conditions in Europe in the fifteenth century. From a careful study of pertinent documents, including a set of libri segreti (confidential ledgers) discovered in 1950, Professor de Roover has reconstructed the details of the bank’s organization and operating methods; its loan policies, which reflected the Church’s doctrine on usury; its trading and industrial investments; its roles within the Florentine gild system and tax structure; and its activities as financial agent of the Church. He covers every aspect of the bank’s history, from its early years under the management of Giovanni di Bicci de’ Medici to its collapse with the expulsion of the Medici from Florence. “An invaluable contribution to the economic history of the period....A splendid book.”—Harry A. Miskimin, The American Economic Review “The most important work in English on a medieval or Renaissance bank.”—The Economist “The best book ever written on the medieval banking system.”—John T. Noonan, Jr., Harvard Law Review “The most authoritative treatment of its subject in any language.”—Rondo Cameron, The Accounting Review