Vita e Pensiero

This article analyses the relationship between the Benedictine monastery of St. Maria di Tremiti and its benefactors between the end of the 10th century and the second half of the 11th century in a restricted area stretching from the coasts of Southern Abruzzo to Garganic Apulia where the monastery collected large and consistent donations as reported in the documents passed down by the monastic Chartularium...

Our essay reconstructs and analyses data concerning the appointment as bishops in Italian dioceses of men belonging to the Order of Friars Preachers, in the period between the papacies of Gregory IX (1227-1241) and Martin V (1417-1431). The data were collected by browsing Eubel’s Hierarchia catholica Medii Aevi and Kehr’s Italia Pontificia and, whenever possible, amended thanks mainly to other data coming from Gumbley’s Series praesulum praedicatorum....