The Avignon Papacy Contested

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The Avignon Papacy Contested is written by Unn Falkeid and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674982886 (ISBN 10) and 9780674982888 (ISBN 13).

Unn Falkeid considers the work of six fourteenth-century writers who waged literary war against the Avignon papacy’s increasing claims of supremacy over secular rulers—a conflict that engaged contemporary critics from every corner of Europe. She illuminates arguments put forth by Dante, Petrarch, William of Ockham, Catherine of Siena, and others.