TRS 728L Renaissance & Reformation Papacy
A study of the institution of the papacy, its officials (popes, cardinals, court and curial officials, diplomats, governors, etc.) and finances, its ecclesiology, its governance of Rome and the Papal States, the pope's efforts to preserve orthodoxy and suppress heresy, heal the schisms with the Eastern churches, support missionary activities, promote crusades, relations with Christian rulers, patronage of the arts and culture, attitudes toward church reform. May be taken as a lecture course or seminar.