Careers and Opportunities at the Roman Curia, 1300-1500
A Socio-Economic History of Papal Administration
By (author) Brigide Schwarz Edited by Wolfgang Mueller
Explores administration and career building at the late medieval and Renaissance papal court.
Brigide Schwarz (1940-2019), a leading German historian of the Renaissance papacy, is presented here for the first time in a dossier of ten previously untranslated scholarly studies. The volume brings the mechanisms of late medieval career building back to life. Success among churchmen was measured in access to ever more lucrative ecclesiastical endowments (or benefices). As the fifteenth century progressed, their treatment assumed highly monetized and abstract dimensions. Guided by Dr Schwarz, economic historians can discern many transactions that foreshadow the asset management of present-day Wall Street. From the 1400s, administrative positions at the papal court (or Curia) were increasingly auctioned off. This created a marketplace for bidders expecting returns by way of ‘creative’ fee regulations or through the cornering of services in monopolies. Only recently, scholarship has begun to question older depictions of the late medieval Church as one of decay and moral corruption. Dr Schwarz points to the ‘modernity’ of the fiscal arrangements which nation states like France soon copied as an efficient model of public financing.
Editor's Introduction Part I - Ecclesiastical Benefices Chapter 1. The Roman Curia and the Late Medieval Benefice Market Chapter 2. Patronage and Clientele in the Late Medieval Church. The Example of Nicholas of Cusa Chapter 3. A 'Rope Team' of Clerics from Hanover in the Late Middle Ages Chapter 4. On Nanker, Bishop of Krakow (1320-1326) and Wroc?aw (1326-1341) Chapter 5. The Vatican Archives and Their Uses for Regional Historians. The Example of Late Medieval Saxony Part II - Curial Offices Chapter 6. The Venality of Offices. An Institution from the Period of Absolutism and its Medieval Roots Chapter 7. The Roman Curia from the Great Schism to the Reform Councils (1378-1447) Chapter 8. On Behalf of the Pope. The Papal cursores from 1200 to about 1470 Chapter 9. Leon Battista Alberti's Career in the Apostolic Chancery Chapter 10. Position and Rank of the Vice-Chancellor at the Curia Bibliography Index
- By (author) Brigide Schwarz
- Edited by Wolfgang Mueller
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