Reclaiming Rome: Cardinals in the Fifteenth Century
- ISBN-10
- 9047425154
- ISBN-13
- 9789047425151
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 549
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-03-25
- Publisher
- BRILL
- Author
- Carol Mary Richardson
Description
This book offers a new and interdisciplinary approach to the history of papal Rome, 1400-80. It argues that the College of Cardinals emerged as key agents of its renaissance because of the crises of the fifteenth century.
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