Great Western Schism, 13781417 - Performing Legitimacy, Performing Unity

A new history of the Great Western Schism, focusing on social drama and the performance of legitimacy and papacy.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. The Great Western Schism: a social drama; 2. Performing the papacy, performing the Schism; 3. Image and responses: Antonio Baldana's de magno Schismate, Ulrich Richenthal's Chronicle, and The Apocalypse Tapestry of Angers; 4. Conflicting legitimacy: the Schism and the rhetoric of tyrannicide; 5. Finding unity in liturgy: papal funerals and the political theology of the pope's one body; 6. Rome during the Schism; 7. Avignon during the Schism; Conclusion.

About the author

Joëlle Rollo-Koster is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Rhode Island. A scholar of the Avignon papacy, she is the author of Avignon and its Papacy, 1309–1417: Popes, Institutions, and Society and Raiding Saint Peter. In 2016, she was made Chevalier de l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques.

Summary

A new history of the Great Western Schism, which goes beyond the institutional historiography previously examined by scholars. Applying the narrative of the Schism to the socio-cultural mold of social drama, this book investigates how papacy, legitimacy, and unity were performed, and how performances were received and counter-performed.

Product details

• Authors: Joëlle Rollo-Koster, Joelle (University of Rhode Island) Rollo-Koster
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781107168947
• ISBN: 978-1-107-16894-7
• No. of pages: 420
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Christianity, History of Religion