The Pope under Pressure: Papal Propaganda during Times of Severe Crisis 1494-1549
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2015-08-31
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The subject of this thesis is papal propaganda during the Renaissance. The focus here is on moments of severe crisis, when rhetoric of papal supremacy was insufficient and new solutions had to be adopted to safeguard the pontifical office and its occupier. Papal ceremony, references to historical and biblical precedents, a martyrdom rhetoric and penitence all played an important role in several popes' attempts to reestablish their court as a locus of piety and the center of power. The events that received most attention are the Italian campaign of King Charles VIII of France and the propaganda of Alexander VI Borgia, the wars of Pope Julius II della Rovere against Venice and France, and finally the events leading to the Sack of Rome such as the little sack by the Colonna family and their adherents, the Sack itself, the imprisonment of Pope Clement VII de' Medici in Castel Sant'Angelo and his subsequent exile in Orvieto and Viterbo.
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