Bishop Guðmundr’s Roman Redemption: Imagining and Suspending Papal Government in Medieval Iceland.

Description: Examines the role of the Bishop Guðmundr in mediating the relationship between the papacy and the Icelandic Church in the thirteenth century. Demonstrates how Guðmundr’s actions, and strategy for challenging traditional notions of papal authority, contributed to the development of unique Icelandic forms of religious and political identity. Connects these ideas with how Chaucer also challenged papal authority and satirized papal bulls in such works as ClT by connecting authority to "nefarious agendas."