<p>Unn Falkeid considers the work of six fourteenth-century writers who waged literary war against the Avignon papacyβs increasing claims of supremacy over secular rulersβa conflict that engaged contemporary critics from every corner of Europe. She illuminates arguments put forth by Dante, Petrarch,
The Avignon Papacy Contested
β Scribed by Unn Falkeid
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Library
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