- Networks of bishops, networks of texts
- Edited by Gianmarco De Angelis, Francesco Veronese
Writing, textuality, politics in the Lucca of Bishops Berengar and Ambrose (837-852)
- Paolo Tomei
- © 2022 Author(s) |
- CC BY 4.0
- DOI: 10.36253/978-88-5518-623-0.09
The article consists of two intertwined sections. In the first, I intend to reconstruct the processes of political and social transformation that took place in Lucca under the actions of Bishops Berengar (837-843) and Ambrose (843-852): foreigners appointed in succession by the Court. In order to do this, I will take the viewpoint offered by the numerous private charters preserved in the Archivio Storico Diocesano of Lucca. Secondly, I will present the first results of a study on the manuscripts of the same period preserved there – an heritage not yet fully explored and appreciated. I will focus in particular on the most-recently entered text in ms 490: the so-called Dicta Gelasii papae. It was written in a Carolingian hand that Armando Petrucci has compared to that of Bishop Berengar. The text constitutes an exceptional insight into the turmoil that animated the sacred palace after the «penitential reform» of 813, and which spread throughout the Empire within a general movement of correctio.
- Keywords:
- Middle Ages,
- 9th century,
- Italy,
- Lucca,
- Carolingians,
- Gelasius I,
- Lothair I,
- correctio,
- penitential reform,
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Chapter Information
Chapter Title
Writing, textuality, politics in the Lucca of Bishops Berengar and Ambrose (837-852)
Authors
Paolo Tomei
Language
English
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-623-0.09
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2022
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© 2022 Author(s)
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Book Title
Networks of bishops, networks of texts
Book Subtitle
Manuscripts, legal cultures, tools of government in Carolingian Italy at the time of Lothar I
Editors
Gianmarco De Angelis, Francesco Veronese
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
232
Publication Year
2022
Copyright Information
© 2022 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-623-0
ISBN Print
978-88-5518-622-3
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978-88-5518-623-0
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978-88-5518-625-4
Series Title
Reti Medievali E-Book
Series ISSN
2704-6362
Series E-ISSN
2704-6079