The essay focalizes on the delicate relationship between Frederick II and the local secular churches. Specifically, it tries to understand how the sovereign and bishops came into contact and tried to coexist in the province of Capitanata, where dioceses were mainly of small or very small size. The research aims to provide a new framework for the interpretation of this relationship and to go beyond the considerations made in the past by Norbert Kamp. It attempts to determinate the role of the bishops in the society of the Swabian South Italy through the analyze of some elements considered fundamental to the Frederick’s method of government.
From the late 14th century, the Servite church of the Santissima Annunziata, Florence, became a major pilgrimage site, popular with Florentines and international visitors, due to the presence of Madonna della Nunziata. This article, however, wishes to investigate the persons who regularly used the Annunziata during the 15th to 16th centuries, beyond the pilgrim crowds. One way to do this is to consider who was buried there. As the Annunziata was not a parish church, people had to make the specific choice to be interred there; thus, burial there may imply a special attachment. People from diverse professions, trades, and class levels found their final resting place in this church through various means. Where possible, the article provides examples of how individuals interacted with the community during their lives.
Based on unedited documents, this work outlines some unexplored sides of the life of Alfonso of Jaén (1330-1389), confessor and editor of Saint Birgitta of Sweden. Under Gregory XI’s and Urban VI’s papacy, he also served as a curialist and, following Birgitta’s death, reformer of monastic communities and organizer of the Birgittine propaganda. In the earliest times of the Great Schism, his figure must be considered prominent and influential for several religious and lay actors. An Appendix follows with the edition of a letter from Gregory XI, the deposition of Alfonso in an inquest on the election of Urban VI, a letter from the apostolic penitentiary Luca Ridolfucci, and the inscription on Alfonso’s tomb.
The essay aims at reconstructing the cultural foundations of Neo-Atlantism, a peculiar phase of post-war Italian foreign policy that coincided with the attempt to reconcile the Atlantic bond with a renewed protagonism in the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern quadrant, in the framework of the decolonisation processes that in the mid-1950s were leading to a retreat of Franco-British positions in the region. The analysis dwells on the visions of the Mediterranean – understood as a space of civilisation and as a bridge between the West, North Africa and the Levant – that innervated the reflection of Italian Catholicism from the immediate post-war period to the end of the 1950s. The related debate is reconstructed here mainly from the perusal of some of the most important cultural journals of the Catholic area of the time.
The main object of this study is the analysis and critical edition of a document by the Bishop of Spoleto Transaricus dating back to 1178 (but transmitted exclusively by a 13th-century imitative notary copy), which reproduces in a surprising way the features of the contemporaneous solemn pontifical privileges, including the two signa of the Rota and the Benevalete. The introductory pages summarize some of the main questions concerning the documentary production of the Italian bishoprics of the 11th and 12th centuries, including the influence exerted on it by the models of the papal chancery.
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