A Companion to the History of the Roman Curia

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-18462-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 107, 392 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 746 g

Reihe: Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition

The Roman Curia is the oldest extant body of institutional administration in the world. Indeed, it was the prototype for the development of centralized government in the monarchies of the Middle Ages. Further, it was the administrative backbone of the first worldwide organization in human history. It developed policies, laws, and procedures that continue to affect the entire world. This book offers scholarly contributions from the origins of the Curia to the early modern period.

Contributors include Barbara Bombi, Elena Bonora, Bruce Brasington, Sandro Carocci, Peter D. Clarke, Maria Teresa Fattori, Massimo Carlo Giannini, Anthony Lappin, Rita Lizzi Testa, Rosamond McKitterick, Dominic Moreau, Bronwen Neil, Miles Pattenden, Giovanni Pizzorusso, Donald Prudlo, Kirsi Salonen, Cesare Santus, and Danica Summerlin.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Prudlo, Donald S

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1: The Early Evolution of the Structures of the Roman Curia

1 The Versatility of the Early Medieval Papal Officials in the Light of the Liber pontificalis Rosamond McKitterick

2 Laying Down Papal Law: Archiving Controversy in the Letters of the Collectio Avellana Bronwen Neil

3 The Bishop of Rome and his Entourage: the Origins of the Papal Curia Rita Lizzi Testa

4 Ex codicibus et ex antiquis polypticis scrinii Sanctae Sedis Apostolicae: Canonical Collections and Archives of the Church of Rome in Antiquity Dominic Moreau

Part 2: Forming the Medieval Curia

5 “Time and Money”: Regulating Appeals to the Roman Curia in the Second Half of the Twelfth Century Bruce Brasington

6 Papal Councils and the Curia in the ‘Long’ Twelfth Century, 1088–1215 Danica Summerlin

7 A Most Fortuitous Alliance: the Roman Curia and the Mendicant Orders in the Thirteenth Century Donald S. Prudlo

Part 3: Roman Church Governance in the Late Medieval Period

8 Nepotism and the Papal Curia between the Eleventh and the Fifteenth Centuries Sandro Carocci

9 From the lectores curie romane to the Magistri Sancti Palatii: Education at the Medieval Roman Curia Anthony John Lappin

10 The Papal Penitentiary in the Later Middle Ages Peter D. Clarke

11 Administrative and Diplomatic Practices at the Papal Curia between the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries: the Chancery Barbara Bombi

12 Sacra Romana Rota – the Papal Tribunal of Tribunals? Kirsi Salonen

Part 4: The Curia in the Early Modern World

13 Locating the Renaissance Curia, c.1420–c.1530 Miles Pattenden

14 Europe and the Roman Curia: Conflicts of the Counter Reformation Elena Bonora

15 The Congregation of the Council and the Worldwide Provincial Councils, 1564–1622 Maria Teresa Fattori

16 The Roman Curia and the Eastern Churches, 1500–1800: Diplomacy, Cultural Policy, Mission, and Confessional Control Cesare Santus

17 Two Bodies and One Soul: Papal Finances in the Modern Age (1564–1800) Massimo Carlo Giannini

18 The New World by Francesco Ingoli, First Secretary of Propaganda Fide Giovanni Pizzorusso

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Index

Über Autor(innen)

Donald S. Prudlo, Ph.D. (2004, University of Virginia) holds the Warren Chair of Catholic Studies at the University of Tulsa. His research focuses on medieval religious history and thought, on saints and sainthood, and on the Dominican order. He is the author of Thomas Aquinas: A Historical, Theological, and Environmental Portrait (2020), Certain Sainthood (2015), and The Martyred Inquisitor (2009).