Papacy and Communication in the Central Middle Ages

Name: Papacy and Communication in the Central Middle Ages
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

The Papacy and Communication in the Central Middle AgesAuthor(s): Iben Fonnesberg-Schmidt, William Kynan-Wilson, Gesine Oppitz-Trotman, Emil Lauge Christensen\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367684365, 978-0367684365\nSynopsis\nThis volume explores papal communication and its reception in the period c.[tel]; 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.\n\nSome 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 .