Research program
Exchanges, the interaction of persons, the circulation of cultural models and symbolic interferences in religious, political and social life. Studies on Religious Orders in the late Middle Ages and in the Early Modern Age in Italy.
University Co-ordinator
Università degli Studi della BASILICATA -
SCIENZE STORICHE, LINGUISTICHE ED ANTROPOLOGICHE - ()
Research Unit Leader
Francesco Panarelli
Description
The search unit means to concentrate the analysis on the interactions and the relationships of exchange between the political world and the religious world in Southern Italy with particular attention to the area comprised currently from Puglia and Basilicata, asserting itself of the Angevin monarchy until to its decline. For a back surveying will concern on the existing relations between the Angevin court and the exponents of the Benedictine matrix religious orders, like monastic families of the cavensi, the pulsanesi, the verginiani, the cistercensi, the florensi. To these monastics groups the begging orders must be added also: the Franciscans, Dominicans and the agostinians, and the feminine case of the clarisse. Such orders offered in fact to a meaningful support and contribution to the processes of affirmation and stabilization of the monarchy and to its definition at regional level. It will be attempted therefore to analyze to local level the modalities of takeover and radication of the same religious institutes with one particular attention to the urban world; in relation with the most recent storiografical research that it’s revaluing and valuing the role of urban communities also in southern Italy. At a concrete and operating plan, the research will aim to develop some guiding main ones: 1) the monitoring of the presence of ecclesiastics and religious "pugliesi" and l"ucani" inside of the central system of power (the court, the bureaucratic apparatuses, University) and peripherical system of power (the “consilia” and the urban “universitates”, the cathedral’s chapter, episcopal curiae and monastic studia); 2) the study of the influence exercised by monarchy, especially by aristocratic families to have part of beggars orders that continue decayed older monasteries, to found new religious settlements and to the construction in churches of private nails in areas interested to the research; a particular attention in this context will go to the study of the reactions to local level to the divisions generated from the Great Schism and the inner fights to the reigning dynasty; 3) a meaningful perspective of analysis aimed at the semantizzazione of the city publics spaces, in which for disposition of the “universitates” or of direction the male begging convents and the charitable institutions became part, and also the role of other monastic institutes in the formation of the city warp between XII and XV century; 4) a religious verification of the use of mediators in conflicts between the court and the local autonomies, between the court and the high nobility (for the area remains the more meaningful families of the Sanseverino and the Orsini del Balzo); 5) finally an ulterior perspective of analysis will concern on the existing interferences between the languages of the religious communication (preech, liturgy and sermons) and the witnesses of political and administrative nature producted in great part from the papal chanceries, with a particular attention on the circulation of models and values, and on re-use of religious and civil symbols, that ecclesiastics, with the court and/or the city authorities, inserted in the propaganda of the political speech in function of the stabilization of the system of monarchic government. The search will allow to constitute one relative data bank to the meaningful figures and the religious institutions in Angevin age; on this base that will come rendered through in Internet, a founded consideration of the estate of the monastic foundations and beggars will be able to be elaborated and the role carried out in regional within for the consolidation and the survival of the Angevin monarchic system.
|
