Electing the Pope in Early Modern Italy, 1450-1700

Informationen zum Autor Miles Pattenden, a Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford, is a historian of Early Modern Catholicism. He is the author of Pius IV and the Fall of the Carafa: Nepotism and Papal Authority in Counter-Reformation Rome (OUP, 2013) and the co-editor of several volumes, including The Spanish Presence in Sixteenth-Century Italy (2015) and The Companion to the Early Modern Cardinal (2020). Klappentext Miles Pattenden takes an analytic approach to the papal elections of the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries, with their ceremonial pomp and high drama, to understand the broader history of the early modern papacy and how this elite political group approached decision-making and problem-solving through four centuries of dramatic change in the Church. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction 2: The Pope and His Electors 3: Methods of Election 4: The Vacant See 5: Choosing Candidates 6: The New Pope 7: Papal Government Conclusion Bibliography

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Miles (Research Fellow Pattenden, Pattenden Miles
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 15.09.2025
• EAN: 9780198961956
• ISBN: 978-0-19-896195-6
• Pagine: 328
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Età moderna fino al 1918; RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic, European History, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, Italy, History of Religion, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Christian leaders & leadership, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, RELIGION / Christian Living / Leadership & Mentoring, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance