Roman Curia Conference
The Historical Outlines and Contexts of the Roman Curia
The goal of this event is to bring leading academics to discuss the Roman Curia in its various aspects throughout the course of Church History.
Seminars will be presented in Italian, English, German, and French.
– Simultaneous translation will be provided in English & Italian
Conference Speakers
Rosamond McKitterick
Professor Emerita
University of Cambridge
Keeper of Manuscripts & Archives
Bronwen Neil
Professor of Ancient History
Macquarie University
Sydney, Australia
Rita Lizzi Testa
Professor of Roman History
University of Perugia, Italy
Dominic Moreau
Associate Professor in Late Antiquity
Université de Lille, France
Bruce Brasington
Twanna Caddell Powell Professor of History
West Texas A&M University, USA
Danica Summerlin
Senior Lecturer in Medieval History
University of Sheffield
Peter D. Clarke
Professor of Medieval History
University of Southampton
Donald Prudlo
Warren Chair of Catholic Studies
University of Tulsa
Anthony Lappin
Professor in Romance Studies and Classics
Stockholm University
Sandro Carocci
Professor of History
University of Rome
Tor Vergata
Kirsi Salonen
Associate Professor in the Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion
University of Bergen
Barbara Bombi
Professor of Medieval History
University of Kent
Elena Bonora
Professor of Early Modern History
University of Parma
Miles Pattenden
Senior Research Fellow in Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Australian Catholic University
Maria Teresa Fattori
Research Associate
Humboldt University of Berlin
Birgit Emich
Professor of Early Modern History
Goethe University
Frankfurt am Main
Giovanni Pizzorusso
Associate Professor
d'Annunzio University of Chieti–Pescara
Cesare Santus
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Catholic University of Louvain
Massimo Carlo Giannini
Associate Professor of Early Modern History
University of Teramo
Conference Schedule
May 26, 2022
Time | Details |
|---|---|
14:00 – 15:30 | Registration |
15:30 – 17:30 | Session 1: “From Regulation to Restraint: Appeals to the Curia in the Second Half of the Twelfth Century” • presented by Bruce Brasington “The Bishop of Rome and His Entourage: At the Origins of the Papal Curia” • presented by Rita Lizzi Testa “Ex codicibus et ex antiquis polypticis scrinii Sanctae Sedis Apostolicae: Canonical Collections and Archives of the Church of Rome in Antiquity” • presented by Dominic Moreau |
17:30 – 18:00 | Coffee Break |
18:00 – 19:00 | Keynote Lecture: “The Versatility of the Early Medieval Papal Officials in the Light of the Liber pontificalis” • presented by Rosamond McKitterick |
19:00 – 19:45 | Dinner Reception & Book Launch |
May 27, 2022
Time | Details |
|---|---|
8:30 – 10:30 | Session 2: “Negotiations with Schismatics in the Letters of the Collectio Avellana” • presented by Bronwen Neil “Papal Councils and the Curia” • presented by Danica Summerlin “Nepotism and the Papal Curia between the Eleventh and Fifteenth Centuries” • presented by Sandro Carocci |
10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break |
11:30 – 13:30 | Session 3: “A Most Successful Alliance: The Roman Curia and the New Orders in the Thirteenth Century” • presented by Donald Prudlo “The lector curie romane and Papal Education” • presented by Anthony Lappin “English and Welsh Petitioners and the Late Medieval Papal Penitentiary: Sources in Papal and Local Archives” • presented by Peter D. Clarke |
13:30 – 15:30 | Catered Lunch |
15:30 – 17:30 | Session 4: “Sacra Romana Rota – The Papal Tribunal of tribunals?” • presented by Kirsi Salonen “Administrative and Diplomatic Practices at the Papal Curia between the 13th and 14th Centuries” • presented by Barbara Bombi “Locating the Renaissance Curia, 1420-1563” • presented by Miles Pattenden |
May 28, 2022
Time | Details |
|---|---|
8:30 – 10:30 | Session 5: “From Europe to Rome: the conflicts of the Counter-Reformation” • presented by Elena Bonora “The Congregation of the Council and the Worldwide Provincial Councils, 1564-1622” • presented by Maria Teresa Fattori “The development of Curial institutions in the post-Tridentine era” • presented by Birgit Emich |
10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break |
11:00 – 13:00 | Session 6: “The New World of Francesco Ingoli, First Secretary of Propaganda Fide (1622-1649)” • presented by Giovanni Pizzorusso “Rome and the Christian East, 16th-18th Centuries: Cultural Policy, Mission and Confessional Control” • presented by Cesare Santus “Two Bodies and one Soul: The Papal Finances in the Early Modern Period (1564-1800)” • presented by Massimo Carlo Giannini |
13:00 – 15:00 | Catered Lunch |
15:00 – 16:00 | Plenary Comments and Closing |
Conference Venue
The Augustinianum - Rome
The Augustinianum is an institute of specialization and patristic theological research, where the Tradition of the Church, that is the living transmission of the Christian faith in the first centuries, occupies a prominent place. Together with the ancient cultures, in fact, the Jewish-Christian message developed, which left a legacy of literary texts, inscriptions, monuments (sarcophagi, churches, deaconies), images, living testimonies of an ecumenical Church.
Located only a few steps from Piazza San Pietro
Interested in Attending?
Seats and headphones available for translation are limited. Be sure to reserve your seat as soon as possible.