The Renaissance Papacy 1400–1600

Buch | Hardcover

432 Seiten

2025
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-44956-5 (ISBN)

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The papacy's prestige, diminished in 1409 by three rival popes, struggled during the Renaissance to regain its position of leadership in various areas as the common father of Christendom and as temporal ruler of a major Italian state and capital city.

After having been weakened by the Great Western Schism, the papacy recovered its leadership position during the Renaissance. It expanded and reformed its bureaucracy, gained control over councils and cardinals, and established its authority over the Papal States and the city of Rome, which it developed and beautified. The papacy also negotiated working relationships with civil rulers through concordats and resident nuncios, worked to defend Christendom from Muslim conquest, sought to bring the Eastern churches into unity with Rome, promoted the expansion of Christendom through missions, tried to suppress heresies and clarify Catholic doctrine, and removed many abuses. To a remarkable degree, it succeeded.

Nelson H. Minnich, Ph.D. (Harvard, 1977), is Professor of History and Church History at the Catholic University of America and editor of the Catholic Historical Review. He publishes on the papacy and church councils, most recently editing the Cambridge Companion to the Council of Trent (2023) and co-editing the Cambridge History of Reformation Era Theology (2024).

Preface

Acknowledgments

List of Figures and Maps

Notes on Contributors

List of Popes

1 Renaissance Papacy

Nelson H. Minnich

2 Ecclesiologies: Popes, Cardinals, and Council

Francis A. Oakley

3 Renaissance Papal Court and Curia

Nelson H. Minnich

4 The Papal States

Christine Shaw

5 Rome: Urban Government, Society, Economy, Religion

Anna Esposito

6 Art and the Papacy

Ingrid D. Rowland

7 Relations with National States: 1400–1600

Silvano Giordano

8 The Papacy and the Crusade, 1400–1600

Margaret Meserve

9 The Renaissance Papacy and Missions outside Europe

Emanuele Colombo

10 The Renaissance Papacy and Eastern Christianity: Greek and Slavic

Yury P. Avvakumov and Charles C. Yost

11a Relations between the Renaissance Papacy and the Oriental Churches: Armenian, Georgian, Coptic, and Ethiopian

Charles C. Yost

11b Relations between the Renaissance Papacy and the Oriental Churches: The Syriac Churches

Nelson H. Minnich

12 The Papacy and Heresy

Agostino G. Borromeo†

13 The Papacy and Protestantism

Agostino G. Borromeo†

14 Reform and the Renaissance Popes

John W. O’Malley†

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	30.04.2025
Reihe/Serie	The Renaissance Society of America ; 22
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	841 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	90-04-44956-6 / 9004449566
ISBN-13	978-90-04-44956-5 / 9789004449565
Zustand	Neuware