Nepotism, illegitimacy and papal protection in the construction of a career: Rodrigo Pires de Oliveira, Bishop of Lamego (1311-1330†)
Dom Rodrigo de Oliveira was one of many fourteenth-century Portuguese clergymen who reached the top of the ecclesiastical hierarchy as a result of the widespread practice of nepotism. The social fabric that catapulted this cleric into the religious hierarchy and the subsequent development of his cur...
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| Language: | eng |
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2008
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| Online Access: | http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1645-64322008000100001 |
| Country: | Portugal |
| Oai: | oai:scielo:S1645-64322008000100001 |