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At the beginning of the fourteenth century, anarchy in Italy led to the capital of the Christian world being moved from Romefor the first and only time in history. It was a critical moment, and it resulted in seven successive popes remaining in exile for the next seventy years. The city chosen to replace Rome was Avignon. And depending on where you stood at the time they were seventy years of heaven, or of hellopinions invariably ran to extremes, as did the behaviour of the popes themselves.

Avignon of the Popes: City of Exiles

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    Publisher: Signal Books Ltd
    Publication Date: 01/11/2008
    ISBN13: 9781904955566, 978-1904955566
    ISBN10: 1904955568
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    European history: medieval period, middle ages Religion Christianity Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church

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    Book Synopsis
    At the beginning of the fourteenth century, anarchy in Italy led to the capital of the Christian world being moved from Romefor the first and only time in history. It was a critical moment, and it resulted in seven successive popes remaining in exile for the next seventy years. The city chosen to replace Rome was Avignon. And depending on where you stood at the time they were seventy years of heaven, or of hellopinions invariably ran to extremes, as did the behaviour of the popes themselves.

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