The Papacy and Communication in the Central Middle Ages
This volume explores papal communication and its reception in the period c.11001300; 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.
Some of the chapters in this book focus on the visual, ritual and spatial communication that visitors encountered when they met the peripatetic papal curia in Rome or elsewhere, and how this informed their experience of papal self-representation. The essays analyse papal clothing as well as the iconography, architecture and use of space in papal palaces and the titular churches of Rome. Other chapters explore communication over long distances and analyse the role of gifts and texts such as letters, sermons and historical writings in relation to papal communication. Importantly, this book emphasises the plurality of responses to papal communication by engaging with the reception of papal messages by different audiences, both secular and ecclesiastical, and in relation to several geographic regions including England, France, Ireland, Italy and Switzerland.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal of Medieval History.
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.
The Papacy and Communication in the Central Middle Ages
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Contents
Gerd Althoff, Iben Fonnesberg-Schmidt and William Kynan-Wilson
Agostino Paravicini Bagliani (translated by Gesine Oppitz-Trotman)
Maureen C. Miller
Iben Fonnesberg-Schmidt
Dale Kinney
Christoph T. Maier
William Kynan-Wilson
Lucy Donkin
The chapters in this book were originally published in the Journal of Medieval History, volume 44, issue 3 (2018). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Framing papal communication in the central Middle Ages
Gerd Althoff, Iben Fonnesberg-Schmidt and William Kynan-Wilson
Journal of Medieval History, volume 44, issue 3 (2018), pp. 251260
Innocent III and the world of symbols of the papacy
Agostino Paravicini Bagliani (translated by Gesine Oppitz-Trotman)
Journal of Medieval History, volume 44, issue 3 (2018), pp. 261279
Clothing as communication? Vestments and views of the papacy c.1300
Maureen C. Miller
Journal of Medieval History, volume 44, issue 3 (2018), pp. 280293
Visitor experiences: art, architecture and space at the papal curia c.1200
Iben Fonnesberg-Schmidt
Journal of Medieval History, volume 44, issue 3 (2018), pp. 294310
Communication in a visual mode: papal apse mosaics
Dale Kinney
Journal of Medieval History, volume 44, issue 3 (2018), pp. 311332
Ritual, what else? Papal letters, sermons and the making of crusaders
Christoph T. Maier
Journal of Medieval History, volume 44, issue 3 (2018), pp. 333346
Subverting the message: Master Gregorys reception of and response to the Mirabilia urbis Romae
William Kynan-Wilson
Journal of Medieval History, volume 44, issue 3 (2018), pp. 347364
Roman soil and Roman sound in Irish hagiography
Lucy Donkin
Journal of Medieval History, volume 44, issue 3 (2018), pp. 365379
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Gerd Althoff is Professor of Medieval History at Westflische Wilhelms-Universitt Mnster, Germany. His research focuses on rituals, power and public communication in Western Europe in the early and central Middle Ages.
Lucy Donkin is Lecturer in History and History of Art at the University of Bristol, UK. Her research explores medieval perceptions of place, especially the creation, use and decoration of holy ground.
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.
Dale Kinney is an art historian whose research has mostly concerned the art and architecture of medieval Rome. From 1972 to 2010 she taught at Bryn Mawr College, USA, where she is now Professor Emeritus of History of Art.
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.
