TY - BOOK ID - 78643529 TI - The 'Commentaries' of Pope Pius II (1458-1464) and the Crisis of the Fifteenth-Century Papacy PY - 2015 SN - 1442696443 9781442696440 9781442647633 1442647639 1442696451 PB - Toronto : University of Toronto Press, DB - UniCat KW - Church history KW - Popes KW - Self-perception. KW - Autobiography. KW - Renaissance KW - Autobiographies KW - Autobiography KW - Egodocuments KW - Memoirs KW - Biography as a literary form KW - Self-concept KW - Self image KW - Self-understanding KW - Perception KW - Self-discrepancy theory KW - Self-evaluation KW - Holy See KW - See, Holy KW - Papacy KW - Historiography. KW - Biography KW - History and criticism. KW - History and criticism KW - Technique KW - Pius KW - Pie KW - Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini KW - Aeneas Silvius, KW - Aeneas Sylenius, KW - Eneáš Silvius, KW - Enee Silvius, KW - de' Piccolomini, Enea Silvio KW - Piccolomini, Aeneas Silvius, KW - Piccolomini, Enea Silvio, KW - Piccolominus, Aeneas Sylvius, KW - Pio KW - Silvius, Aeneas, KW - Silvius, Enee, KW - Sylenius, Aeneas, KW - Sylvius, Aeneas, KW - Piccolomini, Eneasz Sylwiusz, KW - Commentarii rerum memorabilium (Pius II, Pope) KW - Italy. KW - Pii II Commentarii rerum memorabilium que temporibus suis contigerunt (Pius II, Pope) KW - Italia KW - Italian Republic KW - Italianska republika KW - Italʹi͡anskai͡a Rėspublika KW - Italie KW - Italien KW - Italii͡ KW - Italii͡a Respublikasi KW - Italiĭsʹka Respublika KW - Itālija KW - Itālijas Republika KW - Italijos Respublika KW - Italikē Dēmokratia KW - Īṭāliy KW - Italiya Respublikasi KW - It'allia KW - It'allia Konghwaguk KW - İtalya KW - İtalya Cumhuriyeti KW - Iṭalyah KW - Iṭalye KW - Itaria KW - Itaria Kyōwakoku KW - Jumhūrīyah al-Īṭālīyah KW - Kgl. Italienische Regierung KW - Königliche Italienische Regierung KW - Laško KW - Lýðveldið Ítalía KW - Olasz Köztársaság KW - Olaszország KW - Regno d'Italia KW - Repubblica italiana KW - Republiḳah ha-Iṭalḳit KW - Włochy KW - Yidali KW - Yidali Gongheguo KW - Italy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78643529 AB - "Written in the mid-fifteenth century, Pope Pius II's Commentaries are the only known autobiography of a reigning pontiff and a fundamental text in the history of Renaissance humanism. In this book, Emily O'Brien positions Pius' expansive autobiographical text within that century's contentious debate over ecclesiastical sovereignty. Presenting the Commentaries as Pius' response to the crisis of authority, legitimacy, and relevance that was engulfing the Renaissance papacy, she shows how the Commentaries function as both an aggressive assault on the papal monarchy's chief opponents and a systematic defense of Pius's own troubled pontificate and his pre-papal career. Illustrating how the language, imagery, and ideals of secular power inform Pius' apologetic self-portrait, The Commentaries of Pope Pius II (1458 1464) and the Crisis of the Fifteenth-Century Papacy demonstrates the role that Pius and his writings played in the evolution of the Renaissance papacy."-- ER -