Raiding Saint Peter: Empty Sees, Violence, and the Initiation of the Great ... - Joëlle Rollo-Koster - Google Books

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Throughout the European Middle Ages, the death of high-ranking prelates was usually interwoven with violent practices. During Empty Sees, mobs ransacked bishopsa (TM) and popesa (TM) properties to loot their movable goods. Eventually, in the later Middle…