Book contents
- The Power of Protocol
- The Power of Protocol
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Plates
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The History of Papal Diplomatics
- 3 Papal Documents, c. 400–c. 1150
- 4 The Religious Governance of the Latin World, 1150–1378
- 5 From Schism to Counter-Reformation, c. 1378–c. 1600
- 6 Retrospective: Some Long-Term Continuities
- Transcriptions
- Reproductions
- Plates
- Bibliography
- Index
2 - The History of Papal Diplomatics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 July 2023
Book contents
- The Power of Protocol
- The Power of Protocol
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Plates
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The History of Papal Diplomatics
- 3 Papal Documents, c. 400–c. 1150
- 4 The Religious Governance of the Latin World, 1150–1378
- 5 From Schism to Counter-Reformation, c. 1378–c. 1600
- 6 Retrospective: Some Long-Term Continuities
- Transcriptions
- Reproductions
- Plates
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Diplomatics as a discipline begins in the seventeenth century with an argument between a Jesuit and a Benedictine monk about the authenticity of charters. The Benedictine’s seminal treatise De Re Diplomatica gave the discipline an identity, the core of which is preserved in treatises on ‘pure’ Diplomatics, and also specifically on papal Diplomatics, up to the present day. The discipline’s boundaries did not remain static, however, and already in the eighteenth century a tradition of applying Diplomatics to substantive historical problems had begun. After World War II Heinrich Fichtenau defined the contours of applied Diplomatics.
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- The Power of ProtocolDiplomatics and the Dynamics of Papal Government, c. 400 – c.1600, pp. 14 - 37Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023