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Bringing together ancient and medieval history, Papal Jurisprudence, c. 385-c. 1234 explains why bishops sought judgments from the papacy long before it exerted

Explains the rise in demand for papal judgments from the 4th century to the 13th century, and how these decretals were later understood.

In the late fourth century, in the absence of formal church councils, bishops from all over the Western Empire wrote to the Pope asking for advice on issues inc

How did the papacy govern European religious life without a proper bureaucracy and the normal resources of a state? The Power of Protocol explores how the deman

How did the papacy govern European religious life without a proper bureaucracy and the normal resources of a state? From late Antiquity, papal responses were in