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Avignon papacy: Media

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History of the Avignon Papacy
Learn about how the Papal Palace in Avignon, France, reflects the wealth and power...
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz

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Avignon
The Saint-Bénézet bridge spanning the Rhône River at Avignon, France. The Palais...
Dallas and John Heaton from Stone—CLICK/Chicago
Clement V
Pope Clement V, detail from a fresco by Andrea da Firenze, late 14th–early 15th century;...
Alinari/Art Resource, New York
Avignon, France
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
John XXII
Contemporary silver coin depicting John XXII; in the coin collection of the Vatican...
Leonard von Matt/Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Pope Benedict XII
Benedict XII, detail from a bust by Paolo da Siena, 1341; in the Grotto of the Vatican,...
Alinari—Anderson/Art Resource, New York
Albornoz, Gil Álvarez Carrillo de
Gil Álvarez Carrillo de Albornoz.
Retratos de los españoles ilustres con un epĩtome de sus vidas; Imprenta Real de Madrid, 1791