Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-256) and index.
Contents:
The empty see -- Empty see governance and the papal electoral system -- The liturgy of the empty see -- Looting, charity, and liturgy -- The empty see as liminal phenomenon -- Looting the empty see : the early chronology -- Introducing spolia: the connection with the ancient -- Early spoils : historiography -- Evidence -- Right of spoil -- Looting the empty see : the Great Western Schism (1378) -- Rome 1378 : quick historiography -- Rome 1378 : background -- Rome 1378 : "Romanum volumus papam vel omnes moriemini!" -- Conclusion : more loot.
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