The Papacy and Communication in the Central Middle Ages

Iben Fonnesberg-Schmidt, William Kynan-Wilson, Gesine Oppitz-Trotman , Emil Lauge Christensen

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Routledge
25 September 2023

Communication studies

This volume explores papal communication and its reception in the period c.1100–1300; 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.

Some 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 audiences, both secular and ecclesiastical, and in relation to several geographic regions including England, France, Ireland, Italy and Switzerland.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Medieval History.

Edited by: Iben Fonnesberg-Schmidt, William Kynan-Wilson, Gesine Oppitz-Trotman, Emil Lauge Christensen
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 480g
ISBN: 9780367684389
ISBN 10: 0367684381
Pages: 134
Publication Date: 25 September 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Framing papal communication in the central Middle Ages Gerd Althoff, Iben Fonnesberg-Schmidt and William Kynan-Wilson 2. Innocent III and the world of symbols of the papacy Agostino Paravicini Bagliani (translated by Gesine Oppitz-Trotman) 3. Clothing as communication? Vestments and views of the papacy c.1300 Maureen C. Miller 4. Visitor experiences: art, architecture and space at the papal curia c.1200 Iben Fonnesberg-Schmidt 5. Communication in a visual mode: papal apse mosaics Dale Kinney 6. Ritual, what else? Papal letters, sermons and the making of crusaders Christoph T. Maier 7. Subverting the message: Master Gregory’s reception of and response to the Mirabilia Urbis Romae William Kynan-Wilson 8. Roman soil and Roman sound in Irish hagiography Lucy Donkin

Iben Fonnesberg-Schmidt is Professor (MSO) of Medieval History at Aalborg University, Denmark. Her research focuses on the papacy in the central Middle Ages, particularly papal communication and papal involvement in the crusades. William Kynan-Wilson is Lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Bristol, UK. His research explores the relationship between travel literature and material culture in the medieval and early modern Mediterranean. Gesine Oppitz-Trotman is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia, UK. Her research examines medieval hagiography, particularly in relation to Thomas Becket. Emil Lauge Christensen is External Lecturer in History at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and Roskilde University, Denmark. His research examines the rituals and reception of papal legates in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Europe.