Churchmen and Urban Government in Late Medieval Italy, C.1200-C.1450: Cases and Contexts PDF
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Churchmen and Urban Government in Late Medieval Italy, c. 1200–c. 1450 Why,whensodrivenbytheimpetusforautonomy,didthecityelitesof thirteenth-century Italy turn to men bound to religious orders whose purpose and reach stretched far beyond the boundaries of their often disputedterritories?ChurchmenandUrbanGovernmentinLateMedieval Italy:CasesandContextsbringstogetherateamofinternationalcontribu- tors to provide the first comparative response to this pivotal question. Presenting a series of urban cases and contexts, the book explores the secular–religious boundaries of the period and evaluates the role of the clergy in the administration and government of Italy’s city states. Withanextensiveintroductionandepilogue,itexposesforconsideration thebeginningsofthephenomenon,thevaryingresponsesofchurchmen, the reasons why practices changed and how politics and religious identityrelatetoeachother.Thisimportantnewstudyhassignificant implicationsforourunderstandingofpower,negotiation,bureaucracy andreligiousidentity. frances andrews isProfessorinMediaevalHistoryattheUniversity ofStAndrews. Churchmen and Urban Government in Late Medieval – Italy, c. 1200 c. 1450 Cases and Contexts Edited by Frances Andrews with Maria Agata Pincelli UniversityPrintingHouse,CambridgeCB28BS,UnitedKingdom PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyCambridgeUniversityPress,NewYork CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learningandresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107044265 ©CambridgeUniversityPress2013 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2013 PrintedintheUnitedKingdombyCPIGroupLtd,CroydonCR04YY AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData ChurchmenandurbangovernmentinlateMedievalItaly,c.1200–c.1450/ editedbyFrancesAndrewswithMariaAgataPincelli. pages cm Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-1-107-04426-5(Hardback) 1. Christianityandpolitics–Italy–History. 2. Christianityandpolitics–Italy– History–Casestudies. 3. Italy–Churchhistory–476–1400. 4. Italy–Politics andgovernment–1268–1559. I. Andrews,Frances,editorofcompilation. BR874.C482013 3220.109450902–dc23 2013021435 ISBN978-1-107-04426-5Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication, anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. Contents List of figures page viii List of maps x List of contributors xi Acknowledgements xiii List of abbreviations xv Map A xvi 1 Introduction 1 frances andrews 2 Bishopand communein twelfth-century Cremona: the interfaceof secularand ecclesiastical power 25 edward coleman Part I Urbancase studies 43 3 Ut inde melius fiat:the communeof Parma and its religious personnel 45 frances andrews 4 Theemploymentofreligious orders in Piacenza between the thirteenthand the fourteenth centuries 67 caterina bruschi 5 Cremona: a case study 86 christoph friedrich weber 6 Employment ofreligiousin the administration oftheModena communefrom the twelfth to the fifteenth century 108 pierpaolo bonacini 7 Verona:amodel case in the study ofrelationshipsbetween membersofreligious orders and the government ofthe city 127 maria agata pincelli v vi Contents 8 The tasks assigned to the Humiliati bythe commune of Bergamo (twelfth–fourteenth centuries) 136 maria teresa brolis and andrea beneggi 9 Religious and publiclife: Lucca,acase study 149 ignazio del punta 10 Pistoia:acase study 166 sarah tiboni 11 Religious in the serviceof the commune: the case of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Perugia 181 giovanna casagrande 12 Onthe trail ofreligious in the medieval communes of Viterbo and Tuscia 201 eleonora rava 13 Venetianexceptionalism?Lay and religious in Venetian communal governance 219 dennis romano PartII Ecclesiasticalperspectives 235 14 Cistercians as administrators in the thirteenth-century Italian communes 237 paolo grillo 15 TheCistercian monkand the casting counter 251 william r. day, jr 16 Hermitsforcommunes: the Camaldolese in the service of the communes ofcentraland northern Italy in the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries 268 ce´cile caby 17 Cooperative intervention: sermons supportingthe governing authorityin fifteenth-century Italy 285 stefan visnjevac PartIII Comparisons beyond centraland northern Italy 305 18 Religious in secularoffices in late medieval southernItaly 307 hubert houben 19 Interactions between lay and ecclesiastical officesin Sardinia 319 andrea puglia Contents vii 20 Theabbot and public life in late medieval England 331 martin heale 21 Epilogue 348 frances andrews Bibliography of printed works 358 Index 402 Figures Figure 10.1 Religious treasurers in the camera of the communeof Pistoia 1288–1399. Thegraph summarises the number ofreferences in the Pistoia archives to such treasurers and the percentage this represents. page 175 Figure 11.1 Activities by Penitents in Perugia. Catasto: registers ofcitizens and their property for purposesof taxation; libra:similarregisters of citizens and their taxableincomeor assessment forcalculating tax (the latter being the actual ‘libra’);sindicatori:auditors ofthe activities of various communal officials at the end oftheir term of office; Hospital of Collestrada:large leper hospital directlyadministered bythe commune ofPerugia. 186 Figure 11.2 Penitents most active in the service ofthe communeof Perugia. 187 Figure 11.3 Treasurers in Perugiafrom 1277 to 1356,by category. 197 Figure 15.1 (a)Merchant’s jetton, San Salvatoredi Settimo. Source:Banti, Tesseremercantili,vol. II, p.21, no. 68; (b) author’s sketch of medievalmonastery’s coat-of-arms, inscribed on the jettonin panelb, representing S(for Settimo)over apastoral staff. 258 Figure 15.2 Merchant’sjetton, San Galgano. Source:Lisini, ‘Alcune osservazioni’,table XI.7.Left: sword buried in rock; right: arm holding pastoral staff. 259 Figure 15.3 Castingaccounts, stepone:assets and liabilities. Adaptedfrom Piton, Les Lombards,pp.52–4; Barnard, The Casting-Counter,pp. 265–6.The‘C’ and ‘XX’on the first two columnheadingsrefer, respectively, to hundreds and twenties. 263 viii
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