Writing, textuality, politics in the Lucca of Bishops Berengar and Ambrose (837-852)

Tomei, Paolo (2022) Writing, textuality, politics in the Lucca of Bishops Berengar and Ambrose (837-852). In: Networks of bishops, networks of texts. Manuscripts, legal cultures, tools of government in Carolingian Italy at the time of Lothar I. Reti Medievali E-Book (41). Firenze University Press, Firenze, pp. 157-180. ISBN 978-88-5518-623-0

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Abstract

The article consists of two intertwined sections. In the first one, 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 – a 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.

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Middle Ages, 9th century, Italy, Lucca, Carolingians, Gelasius I, Lothar I, Correctio, Penitential reform
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D111 Medieval History
Depositing User:	dr Vincenzo De Luise
Date Deposited:	13 Apr 2024 15:08
Last Modified:	13 Apr 2024 15:08
URI:	http://www.rmoa.unina.it/id/eprint/6999

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