{"product_id":"the-papacy-and-communication-in-the-central-middle-ages-9780367684389","title":"The Papacy and Communication in the Central","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume explores papal communication and its reception in the period c.1100â1300; 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome 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 audienc\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Framing papal communication in the central Middle Ages \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGerd Althoff, Iben Fonnesberg-Schmidt and William Kynan-Wilson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Innocent III and the world of symbols of the papacy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAgostino Paravicini Bagliani (translated by Gesine Oppitz-Trotman)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Clothing as communication? Vestments and views of the papacy c.1300\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaureen C. Miller\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. Visitor experiences: art, architecture and space at the papal curia c.1200\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIben Fonnesberg-Schmidt\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. Communication in a visual mode: papal apse mosaics \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDale Kinney\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. Ritual, what else? Papal letters, sermons and the making of crusaders\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristoph T. Maier\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. Subverting the message: Master Gregory’s reception of and response to the Mirabilia Urbis Romae\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam Kynan-Wilson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. Roman soil and Roman sound in Irish hagiography \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLucy Donkin\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018018062679,"sku":"9780367684389","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780367684389.jpg?v=1750775379","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-papacy-and-communication-in-the-central-middle-ages-9780367684389","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}