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A Companion to the History of the Roman Curia
Series: - Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, Volume: 107
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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.
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.
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).
List of Illustrations and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
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
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
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
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
Select Bibliography
Index
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
Select Bibliography
Index
This handbook will be of interest to historians, theologians, and canonists. Academic libraries, specialists, and post-graduate students will find it especially beneficial.