The body of the dad. Balilliani A.

The book of the famous Italian medievist Agostino Paravichini Ballani is a large -scale excursion into the history of the papacy - the oldest spiritual institution of Europe. The reader will have to get acquainted with the rituals accompanying the election and burial of the pontiffs, to find out what sacred principles are hidden behind their body shell and how Kuria interpreted the concepts of mortality and eternity. And natural in man. The world of Roman dads with dreams of longevity and the fear of death, disputes about the fragility of the body and immortality of the soul appear before us in all its diversity.

The translation of the book into Russian was completed by the Russian mediawist, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Specialist in the Culture of the Medieval West Oleg Voskoboboikov.