How to elect a pope in the Middle Ages: Violence, scandals, and the first conclave in 1274

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06 可能 2025, 18:12

Any baptized male can become pope. This simple principle stands out when addressing the survival of an institution whose reproduction does not depend on family succession. Medieval sources, however, describe the trauma that seating someone on the throne of Saint Peter entailed every few years — or months in particularly turbulent times. Papal elections in the Middle Ages were anything but orderly and predictable.

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