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.
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Titolo del capitolo
Writing, textuality, politics in the Lucca of Bishops Berengar and Ambrose (837-852)
Autori
Paolo Tomei
Lingua
English
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-623-0.09
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2022
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© 2022 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
Networks of bishops, networks of texts
Sottotitolo del libro
Manuscripts, legal cultures, tools of government in Carolingian Italy at the time of Lothar I
Curatori
Gianmarco De Angelis, Francesco Veronese
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
232
Anno di pubblicazione
2022
Copyright
© 2022 Author(s)
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Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-623-0
ISBN Print
978-88-5518-622-3
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-5518-623-0
eISBN (xml)
978-88-5518-625-4
Collana
Reti Medievali E-Book
ISSN della collana
2704-6362
e-ISSN della collana
2704-6079