商品簡介
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, the author tells the fascinating tale of a misunderstood era that brings to life the fourteenth-century capital of Christianity.
作者簡介
Joe‥lle Rollo-Koster is professor of medieval history at the University of Rhode Island and author ofRaiding Saint Peter: Empty Sees, Violence, and the Initiation of the Great Western Schismand The People of Curial Avignon: A Critical Edition of the Liber Divisionis and the Matriculae of Notre Dame la Majour. She also edited Medieval and Early Modern Rituals: Formalized Behavior in Europe, China and Japan;A Companion to the Great Western Schism;and For the Salvation of my Soul: Women and Wills in Medieval and Early Modern France.
