0242 San Girolamo degli Schiavoni/ Illyrians/ Croats in 'Roma communis patria': Constructing National Identity Through Papal Interventions by Jasenka Gudelj

“…It assesses the gestures made by Nicholas V and Sixtus V towards this particular ethnic group against the background of papal foreign policy and the Papacy’s approach to the urban problems of Rome, and explores the promotion of the cults of national saints. …”
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La tonsura como objeto de reglamentación canónica en las diócesis de occidente by Elena Conde Guerri

“…The criterium which directs them to adopt this position emanates from a tradition which the Liber Pontificalis dates to the second century during the papacy of S. Anicetus. Vague references to the subject appear in the Synod of Gangra and in the fourth Synod of Carthage in the fourth century, and in the fifth century in the council of Angers and in the first Irish Synod. …”
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Proclaiming power in the city: the archbishops of Ravenna and the doges of Venice by West-Harling, V

“…I should like to focus on a few key factors, which are, respectively, the role of the patron saint in the city; the building and restoration of the urban fabric; the involvement of the families of the two rulers and that of the aristocratic factions, their wealth and infl uence; and the rulers’ control over ecclesiastical appointments and over monasteries, as well as their links with external powers, especially the papacy and the western empire. </p> …”

Papal privileges in early medieval England, c. 680-1073 by Savill, B

“…</p> <p>The thesis rejects the idea of a ‘central’/papacy-defined meaning or role for papal privileges in the early medieval west, arguing instead for a diversity of uses and ‘readings’ across England and Europe, in which the intentions, perceptions and frameworks of reference of the beneficiaries and their local/‘peripheral’ societies were key. …”

Mogul European Communications between the years ( 643/650) AH _(1245/1253)AD The aim and the reasons of failure by Osama Mhanna

“…However, these reconciliations were not only restricted to the religious authority (the papacy), but also moved to the political side, by the King Louis IX showing a great desire in allying with the Mongols and sending several reconciliations to achieve it. …”
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Mogul European Communications between the years ( 643/650) AH _(1245/1253)AD The aim and the reasons of failure by أسامة مهنا

“…However, these reconciliations were not only restricted to the religious authority (the papacy), but also moved to the political side, by the King Louis IX showing a great desire in allying with the Mongols and sending several reconciliations to achieve it. …”
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Étouffer le conflit : la religion comme outil d’inclusion diplomatique dans les lettres de Thomas Cromwell aux ambassadeurs Wallop, de Casali et Chapuys by Blandine Demotz

“…During Thomas Cromwell’s time as Henry VIII’s chief minister between 1532 and 1540, England almost entirely breaks away from the papacy. In order for the country to exist on the diplomatic scene, it calls for unity and friendship between the Princes. …”
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Peterspenger – en skatt for folk flest by Sverre Dyrhaug, Svein H. Gullbekk

“…This article provides an account of how the Peter’s pence worked, in terms of collections in Norway and transfer of funds to the papacy in Rome and Avignon. Despite the modesty of individual contributions, the amounts transferred to the papal camera were considerable. …”
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Bedeutende Sozialutopien im Kontext des deutschen Bauernkrieges und der Lutherischen Reformation: Thomas Müntzer, Michael Gaismair und Johann Hergot by Anja Franz, Dietrich-Eckhard Franz

“…Martin Luther’s posting of his theses on the door of the castle church in Wittenburg is that famous spark which initiated the Reformation in October 1517, but it is not the only one that critcizes and attacks the Roman-Catholic papacy in the German-speaking area. Through the work of personalities such as Thomas Müntzer, Michael Gaismair or Johann Hergot the Reformation not only spread to all levels of society but it also changed its structure, beginning with religion, to the economy and the sciences, and into education and the arts. …”
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The Stauntons of Galway in China: Irish Catholic networks and the expansion of the British Empire in Asia by Harrison, H

“…It enabled him to win the support of the Papacy for the British embassy to China, and his son to learn Chinese and make a career as a merchant and translator. …”

Catherine of Siena: a Dominican political thinker in fourteenth-century Italy by Davies, E

“…Like other Dominican political thinkers of the period, Catherine was particularly interested in the concept of caritas, which she used to justify her involvement in political disputes such as the War of the Eight Saints (1375–8) between the papacy and Florence, and the disputed papal elections of 1378. …”

Ab Urbe in Franciam: Local topographies and the papal tour in the 12th century Liber pontificalis of Petrus Gulielmus by Carmela Vircillo Franklin

“…Its central concerns were the papacy, and the city over which the bishop of Rome exercised his authority, whose monuments and physical development are charted in great detail. …”
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National and Private Ambitions in the Patronage of French Cardinals at the Papal Court (Fifteenth to Sixteenth centuries) by Flaminia Bardati

“…<p>Few French cardinals left important traces in the form of architectural patronage in Rome during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, a period characterised by the alternation of times of strong tension between the French kings and the Papacy, and phases of political harmony. French cardinals’ relations with Rome reflected such a changeable contingent political situation: their position was extremely delicate because they owed obedience to the pope, as princes of the church, and to their king, as French nobles and bishops. …”
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Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela and papal power in the 12th to 15th centuries by Xosé M. Sánchez Sánchez

“…A pilgrimage that formed and established itself gradually with the process of development of the Middle Ages, and which was interwoven with various regulations coming from the papacy, which will enable us to go deeper into its characterization and some of its evolutionary lines.…”
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England and the general councils, 1409 - 1563 by Russell, A

“…With the transfer of spiritual authority to Henry VIII, the heads of England’s Protestant regimes inherited the papacy’s distrust of the general council, which had the potential to interfere with the course of the reformation in England.…”

Karlstadt's Wagen: The first visual propaganda for the Reformation by Roper, L, Spinks, J

“…Cranach’s workshop produced the woodcuts for Luther’s Bible, and as late as 1545, the two worked together to produce a series of scurrilous anti-Papal cartoons to accompany Against the Roman Papacy, the work Luther described as his testament. …”

Utraquist Bohemia and the English Martyrs: An Uncommon Witness of Reform by Zdenek Vaclav David

“…This is most graphically displayed in what can only be characterized as a highly qualified allegiance to the papacy. This contribution to expanding knowledge around the definition and understanding of Reformation presents a full translation of Pavel Bydžovský’s treatise on the English Martyrs and this is preceded by a contextual commentary that endeavors to more meaningfully bring a forgotten text into the cutting edge of scholatship.…”
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The Holy Office Against Fascism: Book Censorship and the Political Independence of the Church (1928–1931) by Matteo Brera

“…In the twentieth century, when the Church’s secular power was fading, the Holy Office reacted against modernism thus intensifying its campaign against pernicious literature, seen as the main medium through which modernist ideas could infiltrate public opinion. During the papacy of Pius XI, in particular, the policies of the Holy Office mainly aimed to support the interventionism of the Holy See and its attempts to ‘catholicise’ public opinion and society. …”
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The Early Global Vocation of Rome. Worship, Culture and Beyond by Anna Laura Palazzo

“…Against the backdrop of long-term beliefs powered by the Papacy, this paper highlights the main features of the global Rome as the very core of Christianity and, after several disruptive events from the Early Renaissance onwards, as a main destination of the <i>Grand Tour</i>. …”
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Droga Johna Henry’ego Newmana do uznania autorytetu papieża by Natasza Lisowska

“…Godfrey Faussett (1838), matured in an apology of the papacy in The Protestant Idea of Antichrist (1840) and led to the recognition of the pope as the true Vicar of Christ and Sacramentum Unitatis and the revocation of anti-Roman views in 1843, and again in 1845. …”
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