A Saint of Damned Memory. Clement III, (Anti)Pope
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https://doi.org/10.6092/1593-2214/341Keywords:
Church Reform, Clement III (Wibert of Ravenna), Gregory VII, Antipopes, Sanctity, Miracles, damnatio memoriaeAbstract
In the wake of the death of (anti)pope Clement III at Civita Castellana in the year 1100, various written sources bore witness to the many miracles – the «plurima miracula» – that occurred around his tomb. These miracles contributed to the spread of the fame of Clement’s sanctity, which was strongly upheld by the anti-Gregorian party and resolutely opposed by Gregory VII’s successors. Affirmed by some, contrasted by others, and ultimately condemned to oblivion, Clement III’s sanctity amply illustrates the reasons why the reform of the eleventh century cannot be interpreted as an unambiguous, linear process.
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