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Le reti relazionali degli abati di S. Maria di Farfa, 1045–1125. Analisi diacronica di una costellazione di rapporti in movimento

  • Stefano Manganaro
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Abstract

This paper aims at investigating under what circumstances and for what reasons the abbots of Farfa adjusted their relationship network in a period of structural change (1050-1125). For this abbey, traditionally linked to the rulers but also located near Rome, a context of cooperation between popes and emperors represented the best possible scenario. This becomes particularly clear under Abbot Berard I (1047-1089) who built a wide, qualified and global network of relationships, involving the highestranking figures of Christianity and various players within a EuroMediterranean framework. The multiple connections with superregional actors also compensated for the relative weakness of Berard I’s relationship network at a local level. A significantly different picture emerges under Abbot Berard III (1099-1119). New socioeconomic dynamics at a local level increasingly enabled the abbey’s leaseholders, vassals, and milites castri to exert their influence on Farfa. The earlier pattern of relationships narrowed its horizons but locally grew in depth, moving from internationalisation to regionalisation. Rather paradoxically, at that time Farfa provided the RomanoGermanic Empire with unprecedented levels of intellectual, political, logistical, and informational support. A further change occurred in the later years (1119-1125), when the competition among three different candidates to lead the abbey caused the fragmentation of the previous relationship capital. Three main suggestions for future researches come from this case study. Firstly, a moderate - and not radical - revision of the notion of the Investiturstreit, eventually postponing the period of highest tension from the earlier to the mature phase of the contest. Secondly, an invitation to reshape the notion of Reichsabtei also in terms of ecclesiology. Thirdly, it seems that the more an actor perceived the processes of change of his time as a deadly threat, the more he became willing to engage in an allround confrontation.

Abstract

This paper aims at investigating under what circumstances and for what reasons the abbots of Farfa adjusted their relationship network in a period of structural change (1050-1125). For this abbey, traditionally linked to the rulers but also located near Rome, a context of cooperation between popes and emperors represented the best possible scenario. This becomes particularly clear under Abbot Berard I (1047-1089) who built a wide, qualified and global network of relationships, involving the highestranking figures of Christianity and various players within a EuroMediterranean framework. The multiple connections with superregional actors also compensated for the relative weakness of Berard I’s relationship network at a local level. A significantly different picture emerges under Abbot Berard III (1099-1119). New socioeconomic dynamics at a local level increasingly enabled the abbey’s leaseholders, vassals, and milites castri to exert their influence on Farfa. The earlier pattern of relationships narrowed its horizons but locally grew in depth, moving from internationalisation to regionalisation. Rather paradoxically, at that time Farfa provided the RomanoGermanic Empire with unprecedented levels of intellectual, political, logistical, and informational support. A further change occurred in the later years (1119-1125), when the competition among three different candidates to lead the abbey caused the fragmentation of the previous relationship capital. Three main suggestions for future researches come from this case study. Firstly, a moderate - and not radical - revision of the notion of the Investiturstreit, eventually postponing the period of highest tension from the earlier to the mature phase of the contest. Secondly, an invitation to reshape the notion of Reichsabtei also in terms of ecclesiology. Thirdly, it seems that the more an actor perceived the processes of change of his time as a deadly threat, the more he became willing to engage in an allround confrontation.

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  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Inhalt V
  3. Vorwort IX
  4. Jenseits des Investiturstreits 1
  5. I Diskurse und Öffentlichkeit
  6. Diskurse und Öffentlichkeit 23
  7. Una parola contesa. Populus al tempo della lotta per le investiture 31
  8. Simony – Declensions of a Lemma. The Florentine Case 67
  9. Verdichtete Kommunikation und politische Semantik um 1100 97
  10. II Wandel von Herrschaftsstrukturen und -praktiken
  11. Wandel von Herrschaftsstrukturen und -praktiken 125
  12. Worms und seine Region. Bischof, Herrschaft, Stadt 133
  13. Ostiglia around 1100. A Window on the Transformation of Local Power in the Countryside 155
  14. Gaeta zwischen Fragmentierung und Zentralisierung. Wandel der Herrschaftsstrukturen im Küstendukat 181
  15. III Netzwerke
  16. Netzwerke 219
  17. Altbewährtes in neuem Gewand. Die Erzbistümer Köln, Mainz und Mailand und ihre Beziehung zum Kaiser in spätottonischfrühsalischer Zeit 231
  18. Der Einfluss Kaiser Heinrichs III. auf die Bistümer anhand der Beispiele Köln, Mainz und Mailand 255
  19. Conclusio der Beiträge „Altbewährtes in neuem Gewand“ und „Der Einfluss Kaiser Heinrichs III. auf die Bistümer anhand der Beispiele Köln, Mainz und Mailand“ 277
  20. Cadalo di Parma e Anselmo di Lucca. Reti di solidarietà opposte nel contesto dello scisma del 1061 283
  21. Uno scisma diocesano della lotta per le investiture in configurazione. Il caso di Bologna (1030–1130) 329
  22. Erzbischöfliche Netzwerke – eine Annäherung anhand reichspolitischer Zäsuren und Herrschaftswechsel von 1105/1106 bis 1125. Die Erzbischöfe von Mainz, Köln und Salzburg im ersten Viertel des 12. Jahrhunderts 365
  23. Le reti relazionali degli abati di S. Maria di Farfa, 1045–1125. Analisi diacronica di una costellazione di rapporti in movimento 397
  24. IV Medien und Zeichen
  25. Medien und Zeichen 441
  26. Schriftlichkeitswandel und Überlieferungsbildung anhand von Rechtshandlungen von und bei den Bischöfen von Brixen und Augsburg sowie den Erzbischöfen von Mainz (ca. 1050–1150) 453
  27. Im Spannungsfeld von Konsens, Konvention und Kontingenz. Dieurkundliche Tätigkeit der Erzbischöfe von Mailand und der Bischöfe von Parma im Vergleich 481
  28. Inschriftlichkeit im Spannungsfeld von renovatio Romae und renovatio Senatus. Epigraphische und materiale Dimensionen römischer Erneuerung im 12. Jahrhundert 513
  29. Register 549
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