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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"papacy"”.
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Coptic Papacy and Power in a Changing Post-Mubarak Egypt
On November 4, 2012 the Coptic Orthodox Church elected a new pope, Tawadros II, to replace Pope Shenouda III who passed away in April of the same year. Shenouda III had led the church for over forty years and had firmly established his role and himself in the authority structure of the church and …
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The Role and Status of the Catholic Church in the Church-State Relationship Within the Roman Empire from A.D. 306 to 814
… empire. Also, it examines the development of the papacy and Justinian's religious policies.</p> <p>Chapter 4 analyzes the church-state relationship during the reign of Clovis. It analyzes the significance of Clovis's conversion to Catholicism and to the political life of Gaul and the empire, as …
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The idea of paradigm in church history: the notion of papal monarchy in the thirteenth century, from Innocent III to Boniface VIII
… and the dominant way of understanding the papacy in the thirteenth century. As such, the hierocratic theory bears a strong resemblance to how the concept ‘paradigm’ from Thomas Kuhn’s book "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" has been popularly understood. This apparently harmonious …
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Rome, before the State: Architecture and Persuasion in the Early Modern City
… is framed by two events: the struggle of the papacy to establish its seat of temporal power in Rome in the quattrocento and the convoluted context of the Thirty Years’ War in the mid-seventeenth century. This is the period in which an increasingly polycentric and rational, political world was …
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Competing Influences: Francia, Rome and the English in the Seventh Century
… this theme of engagement with the Franks and the papacy across the whole seventh century from an English perspective, directly comparing the competing influences of the papacy in Rome and the Franks upon the English and seeking to discern their relative importance, their nature and whether they …
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Whitby, Wilfrid, and church-state antagonism in Early Medieval Britain.
… to adopt the former, with its connections to the papacy, has led many to frame this encounter in terms of Roman religious imperialism and to posit a break between the ecclesiastical culture of Northumbria prior to the Synod of Whitby and afterward. This study will propose a different …
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Convents Clausura and Cloisters Female Religious Patronage in Late Medieval Rome and Latium
… of the perceived dominance of both the papacy and the noble families in this scenario. While single case studies on Roman convents do exist, there has been no attempt to investigate female religious patronage in a broader artistic, political and social context. This doctoral research …
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The First Pontiff: Pope Damasus I and the Expansion of the Roman Primacy
… amount of agency in increasing the power of the papacy at a pivotal moment in its history. This fact has been largely overlooked by scholars but is slowing gaining recognition.</p>
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Framing a Pope: Analyzing Media Frames in The New York Times Coverage of Pope Francis
… when comparing the first three years of his papacy to second three years. The findings of this thesis could potentially inform future studies which may wish to determine potential for frame transfer due to the content of articles or for studies which may wish to delve deeper into the issue …
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Pope Gregory the Great and a Prominent Woman of His Time
… for the exercise of his powers, in the Roman Papacy. The position was not of his own seeking; he shrank from it. Greatness, in the sense of great estate, was "thrust upon" him; but when it came, he showed himself at once worthy of it. And it is to be observed that, though he sought it not, yet …
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The road from pope to king : il Corso Vittorio Emanuele, II
… of the conflicted relationship between the Papacy and the new royal government of the Kingdom of Italy in Rome, with a particular regard for the manner in which the Corso Vittorio Emanuele II portrays the Risorgimento king. The Corso Vittorio Emanuele II also serves as the means by which …
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Byzantium and the Question of Colonial Identity: An Examination of the Immediate Social Impacts of the Fourth Crusade on the Thirteenth Century Byzantine Roman World
… including the involvement of the papacy, cultural replication and cultural inheritance. Chapter four explores the presence of hybridity in the conquered regions, arguing that both a biological and cultural understanding of the concept can be discerned in Frankish Greece and the …
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Church reform, reconquest, and the Christian society in Castile-Leon, at the time of the Gregorian reform (1050-1135)
… peace and link the military ruling classes and papacy in battle against a common enemy, and worked in tandem with monarchy towards the legal and administrative centralization of the church hierarchy, leaving church-state relations to be governed according to the custom of individual …
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A critical edition of John Bunyan's posthumously published treatise Of Antichrist, and His Ruine (1692)
… Protestant identification of Antichrist with the papacy. The views of seventeenth-century Protestant commentators concerning the fall of Antichrist and the commencement of Christ's millennial reign on earth are outlined, and the extent. of millenarian expectation in the 1640s and 1650S is …
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Historical perceptions of Roman Catholicism and national identity, 1869-1919
… its traditional opposition to the role of the papacy within Roman Catholicism.
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‘Episcopal Power in Anglo-Norman England, 1066-1135’
… the political relationship between bishops, the papacy and the kings of England; the second looks at episcopal landholding; and the third considers disputes between bishoprics and abbeys. These case studies start by asking what bishops did: what their political goals were and the extent to which …
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Some aspects of the intellectual relations between Galileo and the Jesuits
… in the Roman College in 1624. With the Ludovisi Papacy, initiated by the election of Cardinal Ludovisi as Pope Gregory XV there emerged a lighter, more buoyant intellectual atmosphere, one in which Pope and Cardinal Nephew played a leading role. This change in Papal outlook caused Galileo to …
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Confessional Politics and Religious Identity in the Early Jesuit Missions to the Ottoman Empire
… were willful agents of European monarchs and the papacy, but rather that the Jesuits were forced to negotiate their place between Rome and the Ottoman world. They had to amend their missionary efforts based on the circumstances in which they found themselves, and this often ran contrary to the …
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The Antichrist and the "trewe men": Lollard apocalypticism in late medieval and Early Modern England.
… to vanquish his enemy. The identification of the papacy as the dreaded Antichrist was more than a rhetorical ploy used by the Lollards to cast aspersions on their opponent. They corroborated the historical record of the papacy's rise to power with the absolute standard of the 'law of Christ'. …
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The Venetian Connection in early seventeenth-century England
… events called attention to the threat the Papacy posed to temporal authority in early seventeenth-century England: first the Gunpowder Plot (1605), in which Catholics attempted to blow up the English Parliament, including the king, and then, shortly afterwards, the Venetian Interdict …
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