Book section : Chapter
Papal elections and renunciations
- Abstract:
- This chapter sets out the history of the process of electing the pope, including the development of voting rules, procedures, sites of election, and a wider electoral culture. The basic format for the modern papal election evolved gradually over a period from 1059 to the 1400s, with the first “conclaves” taking place in the mid-thirteenth century. In contrast to papal elections, papal resignations have been rare, with most occurring during the first Christian millennium. The question of how a pope might relinquish office nevertheless still interested canonists until long after this date, and rules about how popes might resign were incorporated into the twentieth-century codes of canon law even before Benedict XVI dramatically invoked them in 2013.
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- Published
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- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1017/9781108750608.023
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+ Rollo-Koster, J
- Role:
- Editor
+ Ventresca, RA
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- Editor
+ Eichbauer, MH
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- Editor
+ Pattenden, M
- Institution:
- University of Oxford
- Division:
- HUMS
- Department:
- History Faculty
- Oxford college:
- Wolfson College
- Role:
- Editor
- ORCID:
- 0000-0002-0750-9454
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Host title:
- Cambridge History of the Papacy Volume 1. The Two Swords
- Pages:
- 477-498
- Chapter number:
- 18
- Series:
- Cambridge Histories - Religion
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
- Publication date:
- 2025-02-28
- Edition:
- 1
- DOI:
- EISBN:
- 9781108750608
- ISBN:
- 9781108485234
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English
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945252
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- Copyright date:
- 2025
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