The Collectio Avellana and the development of notarial practices in late antiquity / edited by Rita Lizzi Testa, Giulia Marconi ; with the assistance of Alessandra Giomma.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lizzi Testa, Rita, Editor.

Marconi, Giulia, Editor.

Series:

Biblioteca del "Giornale italiano di filologia" (Rome, Italy) ; 2565-8204 31.

Giornale italiano di filologia. Bibliotheca, 2565-8204 ; 31

Language:

English

Italian

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Collectio Avellana.

Notarii (Roman officials).

Exceptores.

Stenographers.

Notaries--Rome--History.

Notaries.

Legal documents--Rome--History.

Legal documents.

Rome--History--Empire, 284-476.

Rome.

Civilization, Classical.

Roman law.

Archives.

Papal documents.

Christianity and culture--Early church.

Rome (Empire).

Genre:

Essays

Physical Description:

672 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2023]

Language Note:

Texts in English, Italian, and Spanish; with abstracts in English and Italian and Spanish.

Summary:

"These essays study the competences and status of the Late Antique notaries, who from simple stenographers acquired responsibilities and growing importance within the Imperial Court and in the Papal chancellery. They were charged with drawing up the Acts of the 'consistorium' and the ecclesiastical councils, to preserve and often deliver sensitive documents from Rome to Constantinople. The analysis of their multiple activities, and the functions they had in the imperial and episcopal archives, as well as in the libraries of the great Roman 'domus' allows us to verify some new hypotheses on the compiler and on the editing of the 'Collectio Avellana.' Since in the Middle Ages the collection was transcribed into two main manuscripts, preserved in Santa Croce di Fonte Avellana, we also tried to understand what role the founder of the Monastery, San Pier Damiani, played in preserving this collection." -- Provided by the publisher.

Contents:

I. The making of the Collectio Avellana from Cassiodorus to Pier Damiani. La seconda vita di Cassiodoro e la Collectio Avellana / Pierfrancesco Porena ; Ritornando sulla Collectio Avellana. La subscriptio del notarius Sixtus nel codex Berolinensis Latinus 79 / Paola Paolucci ; The gesta de absolutione Miseni of 495 as Synodal minutes. A formal analysis / Tommaso Mari ; Dal manoscritto medievale ai modelli tardoantichi. Indizi nel codice V della Collectio Avellana / Serena Ammirati ; Pier Damiani e la Collectio Avellana. Storia di un 'ipotesi / Giulia Marconi

II. A teeming world of secretaries and archives, between the senatorial aristocracy and the imperial court. Alcune note sui notarii nella corte imperiale del IV secolo / Ingazio Tantillo ; The notarii of the Valentinian Emperors (AD 364-392). Social profiles, promotion in ranks, and political rise in the East and in the West / Milena Raimondi ; L'aristocrazia senatoria romana e la trasmissione di oracoli e prodigi sulla fine dell'impero tra Roma e Constantinopoli (sec. V-VI) / Umberto Roberto ; Archivi palatini tardo antichi. Genesi e mitopoiesi / Maria G. Castello ; Los constitutionarii ¿exceptores del senado? / María Victoria Escribano Paño ; I funzionari dell'amministrazione civile al concilio di Calcedonia (451) / Joachim Szidat ; Archivos y notarii en las relaciones bizantino-visigodas / Margarita Vallejo Girvés ; Lo scriba di Ravenna e la prefettura del pretorio tardoantica / Fabrizio Oppedisano ; Gli exceptores fra tarda antichità e alto medioevo. Aspetti istituzionali, sociali e culturali / Dario Internullo

III. Tachygraphers, notaries, and the formation of the ecclesiastical chancellery. Abiectis ante iudicis pedes tabulis. Stenografia e stenografi nelle passioni tardoantiche di martiri cristiani ; alcune osservazioni / Michel-Yves Perrin ; Notarii, decretali e apocrifi a Roma tra fine V e inizio VI secolo / Tess Canella ; Los preceptos romanos en las primeras colecciones canónicas atestiguadas en Hispania / Joseph Vilella ; Committenti e 'tecnici' delle collezioni: i traduttori tra notarii, copisti, stenografi e altri. Dal caso delle Dionysianae / Teresa Sardella ; Ecclesiastical bureaucracy at the Synod under Menas in 536 / Sylvain Destephen ; Da stenografi ad amministratori. I notarii del Registrum Epistularum di Gregorio Magno / Elena Caliri

IV. Moving documents in late antiquity: messengers and negotiators in the Collectio Avellana. Los notarii y otros funcionarios en la Collectio Avellana. Formación, funciones y papel institucional / Juana Torres ; Don't shoot the messenger? Men of 'power and might': notarii and esceptores in the Collection Avellana / Alexander Evers ; Moving the mail: the status and operations of letter carriers in the Collectio Avellana / Noel Lenski

Cassiodorus as antiquarius / Rita Lizzi Testa.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 583-657) and index.

ISBN:

9782503588360

2503588360

9782503588377

2503588379

OCLC:

1371241051