Decima L. Douie
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Former Reader in Medieval History, University of Hull, England. Author of The Nature and the Effect of the Heresy of the Fraticelli and others.
Primary Contributions (1)
John XXII was the second Avignon pope (reigned 1316–34), who centralized church administration, condemned the Spiritual Franciscans, expanded papal control over the appointment of bishops, and, against Emperor Louis IV, upheld papal authority over imperial elections. Born of a wealthy bourgeois…
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