The discovery of a previously unknown fragment of a Passio sancti Cassiani episcopi martyris Tudertis, preserved in the manuscript held at the Florence State Archives, Monastery of S. Cassiano di Montescalari, Ex Mostra 53, provides new insights into the origin and development of the veneration of Bishop-Martyr Cassian, the patron saint of Todi. The first section of this study is dedicated to a palaeographic description of the manuscript. This is followed by an analysis of the textual relationships between the two known versions of the work. A subsequent section identifies in detail the sources employed by the authors of both versions, laying the groundwork for a hypothesis regarding the dating and origin of the two texts. The study concludes with a critical edition of the newly discovered fragment.
The geo-morphological, settlement and ethnic characteristics that determined the historical evolution of medieval Southern Italy made it a multifaceted territory, an osmotic area, which assimilated some of the elements of the different civilizations that had passed through it and rejected others, an ‘organism’ that was not centralized at all, at least until the rise of the Norman monarchy. In this extreme variety, the religious factor, linked above all to the monastic experience, seems to offer a particularly interesting perspective of investigation, since the monastic phenomenon is also a non-centralised organism. In particular, the lands of medieval Basilicata reveal themselves to be special places, in which the presence of monastic institutions significantly marks the evolutionary dynamics of the surrounding world.
The paper examines the organization of women’s monastic communities in the Middle Ages, focusing in particular on the role of abbesses and the procedure for their election. The case study of the Benedictine monastery of San Michele in Campagna di Verona provides an opportunity to examine the power dynamics within the monastic community, its strategies for economic expansion and its relations with the outside world, including local political influences. The election of the abbess, a fundamental process for the stability of the monastic community, is examined through the electoral practice and canonical theories of the 12th and 13th centuries, with particular attention to the principle of unanimity and its evolution. Ultimately, the text highlights the importance of power relations and ritual practices associated with the election, reflecting the complexity of the role of women in medieval monasteries.
The essay aims to investigate how religious practices (understood as devotions, cults, rituals, liturgy, etc.) were used by the papal authorities as a tool for the restoration of the pope’s temporal power in the specific period between the end of the Second Roman Republic and the return of Pius IX to Rome. The research highlights elements of continuity and rupture with the practical traditions of religious life, focalizing on the specific context of the diocese of Rome.
In the postwar period, the question of the forms and limits of State intervention in the economy aroused lively discussions in Italy and drew the attention also of members of the Society of Jesus. The paper examines the divergent views expressed in this regard by the Jesuit journals «La Civiltà Cattolica» and «Aggiornamenti Sociali»: although public initiative was admitted by both, it was regarded with strong diffidence in the Roman periodical, while it was judged more positively by the Milanese one. A common reference point was the principle of subsidiarity: this, however, was not interpreted in the same way. The dualism regarding the economic sphere was linked to different evaluations of the political developments in the country, and especially of the possibility of dialogue with the Socialists: thus, in the last years of Pius XII’s pontificate, the Jesuit “laboratory” ended up representing and supporting heterogeneous positions within Italian Catholicism.
The Descrittione di Padoa e suo territorio con l’inventario Ecclesiastico, composed in 1605 by Andrea Cittadella, a young deputy ad ecclesias in the Council of the Comune of Padova, plays a significant role among the works on the history of the Church in a period of profound ideological and religious conflicts, which would shortly afterwards lead Venice to the War of Interdict. The origin of the Descrittione should be connected to the powers given to the author by the administrators of the city of Padua. However, the author developed the project beyond its original scope, widening historical and erudite ambitions of his work. The essay analyses the history of the text, recognising several editorial stages. This philological approach allows to understand how the history of the Church of Padua was constructed as a mosaic of “histories” of churches, seen as buildings that bear witness to the collective cult linked to a specific territory.
Regino von Prüm, Sendhandbuch / Regino Prum iensis, Libri duo de synodalibus causis, herausgegeben und übersetzt von Wilfr ied Hartmann (Antonia Fiori) - Die sogenannten St. Galler Annalen. Eine anonyme Fortsetzung der Chronik Hermanns des Lahmen (1054-1102), herausgegeben und übersetzt von Benedikt Maxreiter (Paul Oberholzer) - Luciano Bertazzo, Colligere fragmenta. Studi e ricerche di storia religiosa, a cura di Michele Agostini, prefazione di Felice Accrocca (Alessandra Bartolomei Romagnoli) - Rationes decimarum Italiae nei secoli XIII e XIV. Marsica, a cura di Laur a Saladino – Gianni Venditti (Kristjan Toomaspoeg) - Giampiero Bagni, Templars in Bologna: A Multidisciplinary Approach (Lorenzo Mercuri) - Pietro Maranesi, Una leggenda da vedere. La santità di Francesco d’Assisi raccontata dalla tavola Bardi (Adelaide Ricci) - Giuseppe Fusari, I tempi dell’Apocalypsis nova. Profezia e politica nei primi decenni del Cinquecento (Samuele Giombi) - Francesco di Sales: memoria ed eredità culturale (1622-2022) / François de Sales: mémoire et patrimoine (1622-2022), a cura di Paolo Cozzo – Frédéric Meyer (Nicoletta Bazzano) - Le Figlie di Maria Ausiliatrice in Italia (1872-2022). Case e opere, a cura di Paola Cuccioli – Grazia Loparco (Marzia Ceschia) - Ut Turris. Il cardinale Nasalli Rocca tra le due guerre, a cura di Simone Marchesani – Riccardo Pane (Roberto Violi) - L’Archivio della Nunziatura apostolica in Italia, vol. III. (1953-1958). Inventario, a cura di Giovanni Castaldo (Giovanni Vian)
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