As Cardinal Hugo and as pope, Gregory was one of the dominant figures in the history of the papacy of the High Middle Ages. Coming to prominence under Pope Innocent III, Hugo played an important political role, particularly as legate on various occasions, as well as being a major promoter of the new religious orders. As pope, his battle with Emperor Frederick II is one of medieval history’s most absorbing conflicts. But he also acted as peacemaker, promoter of the Crusades, instigator of mission for the sake of conversion, refomer of the Curia, patron of arts and liturgy, and as a passionate advocate of Church reform. His decretal collection, the Liber Extra, was the most influential of the Middle Ages. A full examination of Gregory’s pontificate is very long overdue. The current volume brings together a team of international scholars, each of them expert in dealing with a particular aspect of the pontificate, and provides what will be a collection of studies of lasting scholarly value on a central figure of the medieval papacy.
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- Introduction: Pope Gregory IX
(1227–1241)
- Damian J. Smith, Brenda M. Bolton
- 1. ‘Our Lord Hugo’: Gregory IX Before the Pontificate
- 2. Gregory IX and the ‘Lombard Question’
- 3. Gregory IX and the Search for an Anglo-French Peace, 1227–1241
- 4. Gregory IX and the Crusades
- 5. Gregory IX and the Greek East*
- 6. Gregory IX and Denmark
- Torben Kjersgaard Nielsen
- 7. Gregory IX and Spain
- 8. Gregory IX and Mission
- 9. Penitet eum satis?: Gregory IX, Inquisitors, and Heresy as Seen in Contemporary Historiography
- 10. The Third Quadriga: Gregory IX, Joachim of Fiore and the Florensian Order
- 11. Gregory IX and the Liber Extra
- 12. Gregory IX and Rome: Artistic Patronage, Ceremonies and Ritual Space
- Index
- List of Illustrations
- Fig. 1 Rome, Lateran Hospital, map: 1. ward; 2. portico [From Giovannoni, ‘Restauri’, p. 483]
- Fig. 2 Rome, Lateran Hospital, ward, south side (photo: author)
- Fig. 3 Rome, Lateran Hospital, ward, façade (photo: author)
- Fig. 4 Rome, Lateran Hospital, ward, façade, upper part (photo: author)
- Fig. 5 Rome, Lateran Hospital, portico on Via Santo Stefano Rotondo (photo: author)
- Fig. 6 Rome, Lateran Hospital, portico on Via Santo Stefano Rotondo, fourteenth-century insignia of the Confraternity of the Raccomandati del Santissimo Salvatore ad Sancta Sanctorum (photo: author)
- Fig. 7 Rome, S. Eusebio, porch, marble inscription recording the consecration of the church by Gregory IX in 1238 (photo: author)
- Fig. 8 Alessandro Strozzi, Plan of Rome, 1474, pen drawing (Florence, Biblioteca Laurenziana , Cod. Redi 77, fols 7v-8r) with notable sites of Gregory IX in red circles: 1. Lateran cathedral and papal palace; 2. St Peter’s (with prominent bell tower); 3.
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