The Great Western Schism, 1378–1417

Performing Legitimacy, Performing Unity

Joëlle Rollo-Koster (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

420 Seiten

2022
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-107-16894-7 (ISBN)

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A new history of the Great Western Schism, which goes beyond the institutional historiography previously examined by scholars. Applying the narrative of the Schism to the socio-cultural mold of social drama, this book investigates how papacy, legitimacy, and unity were performed, and how performances were received and counter-performed.

The Great Schism divided Western Christianity between 1378 and 1417. Two popes and their courts occupied the see of St. Peter, one in Rome, and one in Avignon. Traditionally, this event has received attention from scholars of institutional history. In this book, by contrast, Joëlle Rollo-Koster investigates the event through the prism of social drama. Marshalling liturgical, cultural, artistic, literary and archival evidence, she explores the four phases of the Schism: the breach after the 1378 election, the subsequent division of the Church, redressive actions, and reintegration of the papacy in a single pope. Investigating how popes legitimized their respective positions and the reception of these efforts, Rollo-Koster shows how the Schism influenced political thought, how unity was achieved, and how the two capitals, Rome and Avignon, responded to events. Rollo-Koster's approach humanizes the Schism, enabling us to understand the event as it was experienced by contemporaries.

Joëlle Rollo-Koster is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Rhode Island. A scholar of the Avignon papacy, she is the author of Avignon and its Papacy, 1309–1417: Popes, Institutions, and Society and Raiding Saint Peter. In 2016, she was made Chevalier de l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques.

Introduction; 1. The Great Western Schism: a social drama; 2. Performing the papacy, performing the Schism; 3. Image and responses: Antonio Baldana's de magno Schismate, Ulrich Richenthal's Chronicle, and The Apocalypse Tapestry of Angers; 4. Conflicting legitimacy: the Schism and the rhetoric of tyrannicide; 5. Finding unity in liturgy: papal funerals and the political theology of the pope's one body; 6. Rome during the Schism; 7. Avignon during the Schism; Conclusion.

Erscheinungsdatum	04.01.2022
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	183 x 260 mm
Gewicht	910 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	1-107-16894-5 / 1107168945
ISBN-13	978-1-107-16894-7 / 9781107168947
Zustand	Neuware