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Court and Politics in Papal Rome, 1492-1700

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2002
ISBN
0521641462, 9780521641463, 9780511040320
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1666506 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture
Pages
268\269
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This study describes power and politics in Rome and the role of the papacy in European politics during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It attempts to overcome the traditional historiographical approach to the role of the papacy during this period by focusing on the actual mechanisms of power in the papal court--political, personal, spiritual, and ceremonial. Based on new research in Italian and other European archives, it charts the transition from a political to a primarily spiritual power between the Renaissance and the Peace of Westphalia.

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