The Avignon papacy (1309–1377) represented the zenith of papal power in Europe. The Roman curia’s move to southern France enlarged its bureaucracy, centrali

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THE AVIGNON PAPACY AND ITS RETURN TO ROME is a historical book. It is all about what happened until the Pope shifted the Papal residence from Rome to Avignon in