The Avignon Papacy and the Crusades, 1305-1378

By Norman Housley

While focusing on the relationship between the papacy and the 14th-century crusades, this study also illuminates other fields of activity in Avignon, such as papal taxation and interaction with Byzantium. Using recent research, Housley covers all areas where crusading occurred--including the eastern Mediterranean, Spain, eastern Europe, and Italy--and analyzes the Curia's approach to related issues such as peacemaking between warring Christian powers, the work of Military Orders, and western attempts to maintain a trade embargo on Mamluk, Egypt. Placing the papal policies of Avignon firmly in context, the author demonstrates that the period witnessed the relentless erosion of papal control over the crusades.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198219571
• ISBN13: 9780198219576
• Release Date: September 1986
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.9"