The spoils of the Pope and the pirates, 1357 : the complete legal dossier from the Vatican Archives

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Full Title:: The spoils of the Pope and the pirates, 1357 : the complete legal dossier from the Vatican Archives / edited for the Ames Foundation by Daniel Williman and Karen Ann Corsano
Series Titles:: Publications of the Ames Foundation
Publications of the Ames Foundation.

Additional Author/Creators:: Williman, Daniel, editor
Corsano, Karen, editor
Ames Foundation, issuing body

Subjects:: Catholic Church--Government--History--14th century
Catholic Church--Finance--History--14th century
Papacy--History--1309-1378
Papacy--History--1309-1378--Sources
Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500
Pirates--History--14th century
Civilization, Medieval--Economic aspects

Summary:: The work edited here tells a remarkable story about papal treasure and pirates. Over the course of almost fifty years, the editors have pieced together from the vast archive of the Avignonese papacy fifty-four documents that tell the story and provide remarkabkle insights into how the most extensive of medieval bureaucracies worked. The documents are edited in full in Latin, accompanied by English summaries. The editors have provided a brief introduction that tells the story more fully and gives guidance as to the many types of money that appear in the documents and to the different series of Vatican archives that they have used. There is a bibliography, an extensive index of persons and places, an index of topics, and a glossary. The work will be of interest to students of the medieval papacy, to students of medieval commerce and money, to students of the medieval Mediterranean society and language, and to anyone who likes to piece together a good story from bureaucratic documents.--Publisher.
Language:: Latin
English
Language Note:: Text in Latin; preface, introduction and summaries in English.
Physical Type/Description:: xxii, 343 pages ; 26 cm.