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ArNoS ARCHIVIO NORMANNO-SVEVO, 2017

ArNoS. ARCHIVIO NORMANNO-SVEVO, 2017

In 1220, Frederick II was crowned with a new ordo formalized in a Decretal by Innocent III (1204)... more In 1220, Frederick II was crowned with a new ordo formalized in a Decretal by Innocent III (1204). He had no priestly consecration, and he didn’t receive the bishop’s ring. Faced with these developments in theory and practice, Frederick was no longer the new David of a tradition not so ancient. Since the Gregorian revolution, the Holy Roman Republic had begun to dissolve, but the separation of temporal and spiritual sphere, in the XIII century, was still far away. Here is the drama of Frederick, his powerlessness, and ultimately, his being signum contradictionis.

In the last session of the Council of Lyons (1245, July 17), Pope Innocent IV deposed the Emperor... more In the last session of the Council of Lyons (1245, July 17), Pope Innocent IV deposed the Emperor Frederick II Hohenstaufen. That event sharpened the already violent propaganda and conflict between the papal and the imperial chancellery, but also marked the end of an era dominated by the universal bipolarity of Pope and Emperor. The Council of Lyons opened the way to the uncontrollable explosion of the ancient Europe. The national states, placing themselves outside and sometimes against the empire, were no longer willing to recognize the hegemonic superiority of absolute and distant mystical authority.

It is well known that the so-called medieval “elegiac comedies” of the twelfth century have had a... more It is well known that the so-called medieval “elegiac comedies” of the twelfth century have had a determinant impact on the Italian cultural life after 1200. But how did they exactly influence the writing techniques of the literati? One tries here to examine the impact of the Pamphilus and the Geta in the context of the Mezzogiorno Latin culture of the thirteenth and the fourteenth century. Traces of reuses of these texts in various prose, prosimetric and metric dictamina of the Hohenstaufen Magna Curia prove that the study of the Pamphilus and of the Geta were part of the general Latin culture training of ars dictaminis in the milieu of Petrus de Vinea and his pupils, whereas the later impact of some of the resulting texts as well as of the two “elegiac comedies” on young Giovanni Boccaccio, possibly during his stay in Naples, gives us some clues to understand the general significance of these sources in the “longue durée” of the Mezzogiorno and Italian textual history.

The study targets analysis of the polemic tract called according to its incipit Invectiva prosote... more The study targets analysis of the polemic tract called according to its incipit Invectiva prosotetrasticha in Ulricum Polonum. It represents coherent part of the collection of letters and dictamen by Henricus of Isernia. The Invective is conceived as a hypercritical analysis of single letter written by master Ulricus Polonus. Henricus gradually analyses individual offenses against the subjects of trivium committed by the author of the letter. I attempt to demonstrate the way of Henricus’ argumentation including the quotations of authorities supporting his conclusions and also to outline the problem of master Ulricus’ identification. The article also contains overview of the manuscripts containing mentioned collection as well as the list of Henricus’ work.

The so-called Fitalia manuscript, a collection of more than 150 dictamina preserved in Palermo, a... more The so-called Fitalia manuscript, a collection of more than 150 dictamina preserved in Palermo, and the Cronica Sicilie, which has 61 documents, are both works of the age of the Vespers and they have in common twelve documents. The manuscript tradition of Cronica Sicilie (cfr. the critical edition by P. Colletta, 2013) gives a useful contribution to the constitutio textus of these twelve documents in view of a critical edition of Fitalia manuscript.

The article discusses a collection of model letters, remained hitherto little known to scholars. ... more The article discusses a collection of model letters, remained hitherto little known to scholars. The collection is part of a small practical handbook of dictamen, contained in the manuscript Rome, Biblioteca Angelica, 514. After the analysis of the structure and content of the collection, his context of production is reconstructed: the letters have been produced by a group of dictatores from lands ranging from Vicalvi (Vicalbum) to Flumeri (Flumarum), some of which were in the years 1295-1310 at the service of the lord of these lands, Hugo Scoctus. From the point of view of the history of dictamen, this new collection offers evidence of the persistence, in the age of the Anjou, of the cultural tradition consolidated between Latium and Campania in the Swabian period. In the appendix nine of the twenty letters are published.

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre of Barletta, founded by a group of lay people at the end of the ... more The Church of the Holy Sepulchre of Barletta, founded by a group of lay people at the end of the XIth century, was inserted by Pope Innocent II, in 1138, among the assets of the canons of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem in the Kingdom of Sicily. However, the official handover of the benefits and ecclesiastical rights from the hands of the Archbishop of Trani to those of the prior of the Holy Sepulchre in Barletta, Azzo, took place only in 1162, when the archbishop Bertrand II composed the intolerabilis contentio which had opposed the same canons and the church of Trani for about thirty years. Located in a strategic position near the town of Barletta, rapidly expanding urban centre, in the XIIth century the church of the Holy Sepulchre was the centre of a burgus outside the walls of the city. The opposition to the establishment of the canons of Jerusalem was a consequence of the complicated political plot on the territory of Ofanto valley, arisen in consequence of the papal schism of 1130 and of the relationship that the two contending popes, Innocent II and Anacletus II, entertained with the Norman crown and the great monastic orders, both in Europe and in Latin East. In these dynamics is inserted also the political action of the Archbishop Ubald of Trani, close to the positions of Anacletus, and of the priors of the Holy Sepulchre, who were pledged to limit the claims of the Patriarch of Jerusalem and to strengthen their assets in southern Italy. The fight for the church of Barletta was one of the institutional problems around which the building of urban local identity outlined take shape, favoured by the rearrangement of the political and institutional land ordered by Roger II and William I.
Here, we are going to investigate the causes that were the basis of the opposition between the two churches and the process that led to the actual passage of the church of Barletta to the property of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.

The territory of Cervinara is located at the foot of Partenio’s mountains that surround, together... more The territory of Cervinara is located at the foot of Partenio’s mountains that surround, together with the massive Taburno, Caudina Valley. This place is dominated by the ruins of the castle, which is about 460 m above sea level. A first group of fortifications should have been done in Longobard period, probably as a result of infighting that culminated in the Divisio Ducatus Beneventani (849 A.C.) and led to the establishment of the principalities of Salerno and Benevento. Today there is no trace of this castle. In the first phase of the Norman period, during the second half of the 11th century, a new castle is carried out, with a town-wall and a tower, on the existing building structure. Alexander Telesinus says that there are two phases of construction in Norman times, in consequence of the devastation wrought by the troops of Roger II, during the war against the Earl Rainulfo. With the advent to the throne of Frederick II Hohenstaufen, the Caudina Valley was subject to destruction by the hands of the royal army, who also attacked Cervinara and burned the castle. In the Swabian period, during the years that goes from 1240 to 1260, the keep was restored by a cant that incorporated the existing Norman battlements in the new masonry and by replacing wooden floors with pointed vaults. Later the castle was subject to further adjustments. In 1528 Gian Vincenzo Carafa was deprived of the fiefdoms for having sided in favor of the French Lautrec against Charles V. In a document of the same year, the manor is quoted as «antiquo et meczo roynato et lo quondam marchese non ce tenea persona nisciuna». This is justified by the transfer of feudal residence further downstream, in a still existing palace. Meanwhile the castle, lost its original function, suffered a slow but inexorable process of deterioration that led up to the current state of ruin.
Actually you can reach the area of the fortified complex by a driveway that leads up to about 430 m above sea level, then continue on foot, by a comfortable steps, up to about 454 m a.s.l. scrambling through trees, vegetation and collapses. In the past the artifact was surrounded by curtain walls punctuated by towers; it included the tower, the feudal dwelling and other buildings, of which we can recognize the existence. The fort on the eastern side had a drawbridge, preceded by a moat. Of the perimeter wall are still some features that, where best preserved, have a height of less than 5 m and a width of approximately 0.60 m. A short distance from the drawbridge there was a second door that led into the quadrangular court-yard, paved with irregular stones. Between the inputs was located a small courtyard, in order to limit the attackers, that were able to pass the first door. The feudal dwelling has a trapezoidal plan (28.50 m × 8.70 m). Originally it was divided on two floors. Currently are visible only the walls of the ground floor that delimit compartments of various sizes. The imposing tower, with rectangular plan (10.28 m × 7.95 m), introduces instability in the upper parts of the masonry. The pointed vaults, on which are articulated the three superimposed layers, have collapsed too. It is possible that below the ground floor there is a cistern for collecting rainwater. The external walls appear vertical and the base is slightly sloping. The height of the walls changes with the change of the floor, remaining below 18 m. On different sides you can see several openings, quite different in sizes, shapes and different heights. The thickness of the walls is variable: the east side presents, at the height of +1.70, a thickness of about 1.40 m; the south side, at the height of +2.50, has a thickness of about 0.90 m. The hanging is made from limestone of irregular cut, bound by lime mortar; weaving was carried out carefully to get resorts almost parallel. From the observation of prospects we note the presence of the battlements of the Norman age embedded in the wall of cant built in the Swabian period. The interior of the tower (7.41 m × 5.12 m) has the signs on the walls of the attaches of the vaults and the holes for housing the wooden beams of the ceilings, built in the Norman age. In the northeast corner of the west wall you can see the mouth of the base of the chimney for the smoke signal.

The cloister of Santa Sofia in Benevento is one of the most renowned examples of Romanesque art o... more The cloister of Santa Sofia in Benevento is one of the most renowned examples of Romanesque art of XII century in Campania. His fundamental feature is the originality, because they do not have news in Italy of cloisters decorated as that of Santa Sofia, front to this dates. In this article focussed on the hermeneutic search for stories told on pulvini of the cloister of Santa Sofia, a single iconographic theme is examined in detail: the fightings. Struggle scenes have been uniforms in three categories (bestial fightings, equestrian fightings, man fightings against beasts) and are taken by a rich photographic outfit.

ArNoS ARCHIVIO NORMANNO-SVEVO, 2017

ArNoS. ARCHIVIO NORMANNO-SVEVO, 2017

ArNoS. Archivio Normanno Svevo, 2017

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TEOFILO DE ANGELIS, Riflessioni preliminari per una nuova edizione
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CRISTIAN GUZZO, La battaglia di Civitate: una rilettura
FRANCESCO PACIA, La Denominatio regnorum imperio subiectorum di
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