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Avignon of the Popes: City of Exiles
Edwin Mullins
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Paperback. At the beginning of the fourteenth century, anarchy in Italy led to the capital of the Christian world being moved from Romefor the first and only time in history. It was a critical moment, and it resulted in seven successive popes remaining in exile for the next seventy years. The city chosen to replace Rome was Avignon. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD; HBLC; HRCC7; HRCX1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 406.
At the beginning of the fourteenth century, anarchy in Italy led to the capital of the Christian world being moved from Romefor the first and only time in history. It was a critical moment, and it resulted in seven successive popes remaining in exile for the next seventy years. The city chosen to replace Rome was Avignon. And depending on where you stood at the time they were seventy years of heaven, or of hellopinions invariably ran to extremes, as did the behaviour of the popes themselves.
At the beginning of the fourteenth century, anarchy in Italy led to the capital of the Christian world being moved from Romefor the first and only time in history. It was a critical moment, and it resulted in seven successive popes remaining in exile for the next seventy years. The city chosen to replace Rome was Avignon. And depending on where you stood at the time they were seventy years of heaven, or of hellopinions invariably ran to extremes, as did the behaviour of the popes themselves.
Product Details
Publisher
Signal Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781904955566
SKU
V9781904955566
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About Edwin Mullins
Former art correspondent for the Daily Telegraph, Edwin Mullins is a writer, journalist and filmmaker who has written widely on the visual arts and architecture. He is the author of The Pilgrimage to Santiago and In Search of Cluny: God s Lost Empire, both published by Signal.
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