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Angelus Pacis: The Legation of Cardinal Giovanni Gaetano Orsini, 1326-1334
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Blake Beattie
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2007
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Angelus Pacis explores the largely overlooked legation of Cardinal Giovanni Gaetano Orsini, who served as Pope John XXII’s legatus a latere to central Italy from 1326 to 1334. Orsini's appointment constituted a break from the Avignon papacy's traditional reliance on Gallic agents in Italy — a fact which contributed significantly to both the successes and the failures of his legation. The book examines Avignonese papal policy in Italy and the peculiar circumstances that necessitated Orsini's legation; Orsini's powerful Roman family; the nature of the legatine power he wielded; his campaigns in Tuscany and the Papal States; his provocative signoria in Rome; his reform initiatives; and the reasons underlying the ultimate failure of his mission.
Author / Editor information
Blake R. Beattie, Ph.D. (1992) in Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, is Associate Professor of History at the University of Louisville. He has published articles on Avignonese curial preaching and later medieval Italy.
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eBook published on:
November 1, 2006
eBook ISBN:
9789047411000
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Main content:
250
eBook ISBN:
9789047411000
Keywords for this book
medieval; Italy; Avignon; papacy; Pope; John; XXII; Orsini; Cardinal; Giovanni; Gaetano; papal; legations
Audience(s) for this book
The book is aimed at historians with an interest in the Avignon papacy or later medieval Italy as well as cultural historians and scholars of the medieval Church.
