Rome Reshaped: Jubilees 1300-2000 - Rilegato

O'Grady, Desmond

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ISBN 10: 082641205X ISBN 13: 9780826412058

Casa editrice: Continuum Intl Pub Group, 1999

Riassunto

Desmond O'Grady has written a history of Rome and the papacy seen through the grid of the twenty-five Jubilees that have occurred since the practice was initiated seven hundred years ago. During each Jubilee Year the Holy See has asserted its centrality, its universal relevance, and responded to various challenges: the Islamic threat, the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and the loss of the Papal States. The story of the Jubilees is told by means of the following coordinates; the state of the city and of the church at the time, the most memorable episodes, and the reactions of the pilgrims, many of them kings, queens and emperors. These 'liminal', or threshold, moments find the church often at its best and its worst. The final chapter analyzes the announced goals and prospects for Jubilee 2000 and explains how the church hopes to ferry humankind into the third millennium with a new sense of history as a meaningful journey.

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Book by OGrady Desmond

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• Editore: Continuum Intl Pub Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 082641205X
• ISBN 13: 9780826412058
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 216