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The office of ceremonies and advancement in Curial Rome, 1466-1528 / Jennifer Mara DeSilva.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- DeSilva, Jennifer Mara, 1976- author.
- Series:
- Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; Volume 230.
- Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, 1573-4188 ; Volume 230
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
- Church history.
- Catholic Church. Congregatio Caeremonialis--History.
- Catholic Church.
- Catholic Church--History--16th century.
- Patrizi Piccolomini, Agostino, approximately 1435-1496.
- Patrizi Piccolomini, Agostino.
- Burchard, Johann, -1506.
- Burchard, Johann.
- Grassi, Paride, -1528.
- Grassi, Paride.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (266 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]
- Summary:
- This cultural and institutional history explores the careers of men who served in Rome’s Office of Ceremonies during the papal court’s growth period (c.1466–1528), in order to understand how the smallest papal college stands as a model of early modern curial advancement. The experiences and textual contributions of three ceremonialists, Agostino Patrizi, Johann Burchard, and Paris de’ Grassi, show diverse strategies and origins, but similar concerns and achievements. In a period of heightened competition and increasing pressure for regularization and reform, the Office’s professionalization and their combined office-holding, networks, and textual production, reveal how early modern curialists got ahead. This study shows the complexity of successful advancement strategies that were cultivated over decades and stretched far beyond papal support.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Jennifer Mara DeSilva
- Copyright page / Jennifer Mara DeSilva
- Acknowledgements / Jennifer Mara DeSilva
- Figures and Tables / Jennifer Mara DeSilva
- Abbreviations / Jennifer Mara DeSilva
- List of Pontificates, 1420–1605 / Jennifer Mara DeSilva
- A Note on Names / Jennifer Mara DeSilva
- Introduction / Jennifer Mara DeSilva
- Chapter 1 The Curia and the Office of Ceremonies / Jennifer Mara DeSilva
- Chapter 2 The Development of the Office of Ceremonies / Jennifer Mara DeSilva
- Chapter 3 The Office-Holders: Origins and Strategies / Jennifer Mara DeSilva
- Chapter 4 The Office-Holder’s Great Goal: A Bishopric / Jennifer Mara DeSilva
- Chapter 5 Tools of the Profession: Ceremonial Diaries and Guides / Jennifer Mara DeSilva
- Chapter 6 Curial Authors / Jennifer Mara DeSilva
- Chapter 7 Clerical Ambition in the Papal Chapel / Jennifer Mara DeSilva
- Conclusion / Jennifer Mara DeSilva
- Bibliography / Jennifer Mara DeSilva
- Index / Jennifer Mara DeSilva.
- Notes:
- This study explores the careers of Agostino Patrizi, Johann Burchard, and Paris de’ Grassi, who served in Rome’s Office of Ceremonies (c.1466-1528). Amid heightened competition, their diverse strategies achieved personal and institutional successes and lasting impacts on the Catholic Church.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: DeSilva, Jennifer Mara The Office of Ceremonies and Advancement in Curial Rome, 1466-1528
- ISBN:
- 9789004506992
- OCLC:
- 1298388124
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004506992 DOI
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