The Cambridge History of the Papacy
The Cambridge History of the Papacy
Robert A. Ventresca, King’s University College at Western University
Melodie H. Eichbauer, Florida Gulf Coast University
Miles Pattenden, University of Oxford
$180.00
USDThis volume engages with the centrality of the popes within the Catholic Church and the claim of papal authority as it was exercised through the institution's various governing instruments. Addressing the history of the papacy in the longue durée, it highlights developments and the differences between the first and second millennium of the papacy. The chapters bring nuance to older historiographical models of papal supremacy, focusing on how apostolic primacy was contested and re-negotiated, and how the contours of power relationships shifted between center and periphery. The volume draws attention to questions about papal supremacy across time, place, and transnational lines; the function of law in the exercise of papal authority; the governance of the church in the form of the Curia, synods, and regional and ecumenical councils; the governance of the Papal States; the management of finances and church-state relations; and the relationship between papal temporal and spiritual authority.
- Provides cross-disciplinary and intersectional history of the papacy as an actor in European and global history
- Provides a sustained analysis of the origins and nature of papal power and authority, and its evolution over the centuries
- Provides new and original insights into the papacy's role in and response to such processes as globalization, decolonization and movements for social and reproductive rights around the world
Product details
July 2025Hardback
9781108493826
744 pages
235 × 158 × 40 mm
1.3kg
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Table of Contents
- General Introduction Joëlle Rollo-Koster, Robert A. Ventresca, Melodie Eichbauer and Miles Pattenden
- Part I. The Pope within the Church:
- 1. Vicar of Christ (c.1050–c.1300) Jessalynn Bird
- 2. The Pope, the archdeacon and the clergy: a competition John Moorhead
- 3. From papal absolutism to Vatican II Christian Sorrel
- 4. Vatican II and its legacy Gilles Routhier
- 5. Rekindling collegiality: the Synod of Bishops since Vatican II Massimo Faggioli
- Part II. The Roman Curia:
- 6. Putting the spoke(s) in: curial centrality and local agency in the pre-Reformation church Robert Swanson
- 7. The College of Cardinals Miles Pattenden
- 8. The secretariat of state Roberto Regoli
- 9. The papal penitentiary Peter Clarke
- 10. 'Whoever is sent from another': legates as instruments of papal government Kriston Rennie
- 11. Inquisition, Holy Office, and the congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith Vincenzo Lavenia
- 12. Nepotism and Roman micro-policy Wolfgang Reinhard
- Part III. Canon Law:
- 13. The medieval papacy and canon law Kenneth Pennington
- 14. Canon law in the early middle ages Greta Austin
- 15. Gratian's Decretum: the transmission and fluidity of legal knowledge in the twelfth century Melodie H. Eichbauer
- 16. Papal decretals Anne J. Duggan
- 17. Papal law in the English church: post-reformation Anglican jurisprudence Norman Doe
- 18. The Codes of Canon Law (1917
- 1983
- 1990) John Beal
- 19. The Pope in the two Latin codes (1917 and 1983) – current status and discussion of possible developments Peter Platen
- Part IV. Finance:
- 20. Papal finances in the middle ages Benedict Wiedemann
- 21. Papal finances in the early modern period FrancescoGuidi-Bruscoli
- Part V. Papal states
- 22. Popes and the papal state to 1305 Thomas F. X. Noble
- 23. Papal warfare in the fourteenth century Christophe Masson
- 24. The Borgias Catherine Fletcher
- 25. Popes and the papal states (1500–1800) Irene Fosi
- 26. The popes and the government of the papal states, 1800–1870 Christoper Korten
