Article: Urban V (1362-1370): Kirchenreform zwischen Kardinalkollegium, Kurie und Klientel. (Book Reviews and Notes).

Urban V (1362-1370): Kirchenreform zwischen Kardinalkollegium, Kurie und Klientel. By Ludwig Vones. Papste und Papsttum 28. Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann, 1998. xii + 719 pp. DM340 cloth.

This Habilitationsschrift exhibits the positive and negative aspects inherent in the genre. While encyclopedic erudition is evident in the author's grasp of primary sources and scholarly literature, the book presents a loosely connected series of studies rather than a standard monograph. The volume is long, divided into three major parts with many subsections; the author's writing style extremely complex (even for academic German); and the analyses contained therein often require ...

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