Pope John XXII and His Franciscan Cardinal Bertrand de la Tour and the Apostolic Poverty Controversy |
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| Author:
| Nold, Patrick |
| Series title: | Oxford Historical Monographs |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-926875-7 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2004 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Imprint: | Clarendon Press |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $210.00 |
Book Description:
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This book provides a major reinterpretation of the medieval theological controversy over the poverty of Christ, popularized by Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, but long important for intellectual, political, and legal history. Patrick Nold focuses on the early fourteenth-century cardinal, Bertrand de la Tour, a man apparently torn between the pope who was his patron and the Franciscan Order to which he had devoted his life. The discovery of Bertrand's significance undermines the...
More DescriptionThis book provides a major reinterpretation of the medieval theological controversy over the poverty of Christ, popularized by Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, but long important for intellectual, political, and legal history. Patrick Nold focuses on the early fourteenth-century cardinal, Bertrand de la Tour, a man apparently torn between the pope who was his patron and the Franciscan Order to which he had devoted his life. The discovery of Bertrand's significance undermines the conventional scholarly interpretation of this episode.