Vita e Pensiero

Maria Teresa Brolis, Storie di donne nel Medioevo (Silvia Carraro) p. 559 – Giovanni Araldi, Vita religiosa e dinamiche politico-sociali. Le congregazioni del clero a Benevento (secoli XII-XIV) (Antonio Rigon) p. 562 – Synodicon Hispanum, dirigido por A. García y García (†), vol. XIII: Ager (Abadía), Barcelona, Lérida, Segorbe-Albarracín y Urgell, por F. Cantelar Rodríguez - A. García y García (†) - L. A. García Matamoro - J. Justo Fernández - B. Marquès Sala (Paola Maffei) p. 566 – Fabiana Veronese, L’Inquisizione nel secolo dei Lumi. Il Sant’Uffizio e la Repubblica di Venezia (XVIII sec.) (Marco Rochini) p. 568 – Il conclave del 1823 e l’elezione di Leone XII, a cura di Ilaria Fiumi Sermattei - Roberto Regoli (Maria Antonietta Visceglia) p. 571 – The Reception and Application of the Encyclical Pascendi, ed. Claus Arnold - Giovanni Vian (Paolo Cozzo) p. 577 – Roberto Regoli, Oltre la crisi della Chiesa. Il pontificato di Benedetto XVI (Maria Bocci) p. 582

Abbreviazioni e sigle p. 587 – Storia generale p. 589 – Storia locale p. 622 Indice dei nomi degli autori e scritti registrati nella bibliografia p. 685

This essay analyses a false donation that Anselm, bishop of Aosta and count, made to the chapters of the cathedral and of St. Ursus of Aosta, which bears the date of 923 but was written by the middle of the eleventh century. The political and ideological motives of the forgery are related to the contrast between the local church and the Humbertian dynasty, which aimed to control the property of the episcopal mensa. The graphic features and the textual structure of the document are then examined...

This article analyses the political, juridical, theological and pastoral action of pope Innocent III (1198-1216) towards Norway, on the basis of the contemporary narrative and diplomatic sources...

The essay illustrates the figure of Hugh from Pisa, a personage of undeniable spiritual charisma – so much to be included among the Blesseds of the Pisan Church – who, like many other fellow-citizens, has an international dimension: after his studies in utroque iure in Bologna, he became Canon of the Cathedral of Pisa (1226-1237) and lawyer in the Roman Curia...