@article{1479441,
      recid = {1479441},
      author = {McCahill, Elizabeth,},
      title = {Reviving the Eternal City : Rome and the Papal Court,  1420-1447 /},
      pages = {1 online resource :},
      abstract = {In 1420, after more than one hundred years of the Avignon  Exile and the Western Schism, the papal court returned to  Rome, which had become depopulated, dangerous, and  impoverished in the papacy's absence. Reviving the Eternal  City examines the culture of Rome and the papal court  during the first half of the fifteenth century. As  Elizabeth McCahill explains, during these decades Rome and  the Curia were caught between conflicting  realities--between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance,  between conciliarism and papalism, between an image of Rome  as a restored republic and a dream of the city as a papal  capital. Through the testimony of humanists' rhetorical  texts and surviving archival materials, McCahill  reconstructs the niche that scholars carved for themselves  as they penned vivid descriptions of Rome and offered  remedies for contemporary social, economic, religious, and  political problems. In addition to analyzing the humanists'  intellectual and professional program, McCahill  investigates the different agendas that popes Martin V  (1417-1431) and Eugenius IV (1431-1447) and their cardinals  had for the post-Schism pontificate. Reviving the Eternal  City illuminates an urban environment in transition and  explores the ways in which curialists collaborated and  competed to develop Rome's ancient legacy into a potent  cultural myth.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1479441},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674726154},
}