their court a center of moral decadence (though Petrarch’s celebrated picture of it is almost certainly overdrawn). The attempt at the Council of Constance (1414–18) to make the papacy ...

I'm a historian of the medieval papacy and editor of the forthcoming three volumes of the Cambridge History of the Papacy. So ...

The Roman basilica of St. John Lateran marks the 1,700th anniversary of its dedication on Saturday, Nov. 9. It’s a feast day ...

By law, a pope possesses supreme executive, legislative and judicial authority in the Catholic Church, meaning there simply ...

Henry VIII and his advisor Thomas Cromwell broke with the papacy, thus creating the possibility ... English was to be the only language of the courts of Wales, and those using the Welsh language ...

Albert had little need to persuade Victoria that her Court, its recent past tarnished ... She was hostile toward the Papacy, and feared Roman Catholic inroads in Britain as threatening disequilibrium.

Two popes and their courts occupied the see of St. Peter ... redressive actions, and reintegration of the papacy in a single pope. Investigating how popes legitimized their respective positions and ...

ANALYSIS: The two world leaders have clashed on migration but could find common ground on a push for a negotiated peace in ...

Photograph by Roger-Viollet, Cordon Press Bas-Relief of Joan The court bailiff of Rouen ... with the help and support of the papacy. This was as much a political act as a religious act, a way ...

In the courts of New York and of England ... and, Mr. Guthrie goes on to explain, the Papacy and the Mexican Hierarchy refrain from asking for it, not because it is unlawful and unreasonable ...

William Wallace was dispatched to the court of Philip IV in France to drum up support. The Scottish Church, directed by Bishop Lamberton, appealed directly to the papacy (the equivalent of the UN ...

(Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) I’m a historian of the medieval papacy and editor of the forthcoming three ... Clement ...