The Papacy and Communication in the Central Middle Ages

This volume explores papal communication and its reception in the period c.1100-1300; it presents a range of interdisciplinary approaches and original insights into the construction of papal authority and local perceptions of papal power in the central Middle Ages.**

Autorentext

Iben Fonnesberg-Schmidt is Professor (MSO) of Medieval History at Aalborg University, Denmark. Her research focuses on the papacy in the central Middle Ages, particularly papal communication and papal involvement in the crusades.

William Kynan-Wilson is Lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Bristol, UK. His research explores the relationship between travel literature and material culture in the medieval and early modern Mediterranean.

Gesine Oppitz-Trotman is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia, UK. Her research examines medieval hagiography, particularly in relation to Thomas Becket.

Emil Lauge Christensen is External Lecturer in History at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and Roskilde University, Denmark. His research examines the rituals and reception of papal legates in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Europe.

Inhalt

1. Framing papal communication in the central Middle Ages

Gerd Althoff, Iben Fonnesberg-Schmidt and William Kynan-Wilson

2. Innocent III and the world of symbols of the papacy

Agostino Paravicini Bagliani (translated by Gesine Oppitz-Trotman)

3. Clothing as communication? Vestments and views of the papacy c.1300

Maureen C. Miller

4. Visitor experiences: art, architecture and space at the papal curia c.1200

Iben Fonnesberg-Schmidt

5. Communication in a visual mode: papal apse mosaics

Dale Kinney

6. Ritual, what else? Papal letters, sermons and the making of crusaders

Christoph T. Maier

7. Subverting the message: Master Gregory's reception of and response to the Mirabilia Urbis Romae

William Kynan-Wilson

8. Roman soil and Roman sound in Irish hagiography

Lucy Donkin