Raiding Saint Peter : empty sees, violence, and the initiation of the Great Western Schism (1378)

Raiding Saint Peter : empty sees, violence, and the initiation of the Great Western Schism (1378) / by Joëlle Rollo-Koster.

Throughout the European Middle Ages, the death of high-ranking prelates was usually interwoven with violent practices. During Empty Sees, mobs ransacked bishops' and popes' properties to loot their movable goods.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rollo-Koster, Joëlle
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, ©2008.
Series:Brill's series in church history ; v. 32.
Subjects:
Catholic Church > Europe > Bishops > Appointment, call, and election > History > To 1500.
Catholic Church
To 1500
Kirchengeschichte 1378.
Schism, The Great Western, 1378-1417.
Violence > Religious aspects > Catholic Church > History > To 1500.
Pillage > Europe > History > To 1500.
RELIGION > Christianity > Catholic.
Bishops > Appointment, call, and election
Pillage
Violence > Religious aspects > Catholic Church
Abendländisches Schisma
Gewalttätigkeit
Papstwahl
Sedisvakanz
Europe > Religious life and customs.
Europe
History
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Table of Contents:
  • The empty see
  • Empty see governance and the papal electoral system
  • The liturgy of the empty see
  • Looting, charity, and liturgy
  • The empty see as liminal phenomenon
  • Looting the empty see : the early chronology
  • Introducing spolia: the connection with the ancient
  • Early spoils : historiography
  • Evidence
  • Right of spoil
  • Looting the empty see : the Great Western Schism (1378)
  • Rome 1378 : quick historiography
  • Rome 1378 : background
  • Rome 1378 : "Romanum volumus papam vel omnes moriemini!"
  • Conclusion : more loot.

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