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From dust jacket "Take heed, take heed, give us a Roman Pope or we will turn your heads redder than your hats!" So cried the Roman mob storming through the Vatican as the embattled Cardinals sought to elect a new Pope - successor to Gregory XI who had held his court in Avignon and imprudently returned to Rome to die. Out of this tumultuous Conclave of 1378, when the Cardinals in terror created two simultaneous Popes and then a third - old Tibaldeschi (who refused), Urban (who promised to abdicate), and finally (when Urban proved intractable) Clement VII - came the Great Schism of the West. Forty disastrous years of rival Popes, rival Christian Kings and Colleges of Cardinals, rival armies on the march - years of moral chaos as the Church was split asunder, perhaps forever. Marzieh Gail recreates that turbulent age with the help of contemporary letters, memoirs and documents, superbly evoking the drama and texture of a world irrevocably divided between Urbanists, Clementines, and followers of John of Pisa. She uncovers the intricate web of intrigue running through all the courts of Europe, even to Islam. Above all, she brings to life the extraordinary men and women - saints, peasant

Author

Gail, Marzieh.

Publisher

New York, Simon and Schuster

Published

1969

Language

EN

ISBN

9780709128205

Subjects

Religion, Philosophy, Western