La diocesi di Bobbio : : formazione e sviluppi di un'istituzione millenaria / / a cura di Eleonora Destefanis e Paola Guglielmotti.

• Superior document: Reti Medievali E-Book ; 23
• TeilnehmendeR: Destefanis, Eleonora,; Guglielmotti, Paola,
• Place / Publishing House: Firenze : : Firenze University Press,, 2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Reti Medievali E-Book ; 23.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (540 pages) :; colour illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).

The volume, drawing on different disciplinary and historiographic traditions, offers a series of syntheses and thematic insights, functional to the contextualization of the peculiar case of the episcopate of Bobbio, founded in 1014 in the Piacenza Apennines as a development of the famous monastery of San Colombano. The considerable amount of documents available thanks to the recent reorganization of the diocesan archives, which also made it possible to illustrate the library of the cathedral, required an overall presentation and specific attention to the constitutive acts of the new institution. The deepening of the historical context within which the subsequent diocesan story unfolds was conducted in relation to the monastery and a selection of nearby cities. The analysis of the settlement dynamics of the Bobbio center and of the structural developments of the church and of the episcopal complex are counterpointed by both in-depth studies aimed at the organization of the territory, captured in its civil, religious, welfare articulations, and by discussions of the cultural and liturgical components that animate this Church. Eleonora Destefanis teaches Late Antique and Medieval Archeology at the University of Eastern Piedmont. His main areas of research are the archeology of monasteries, with special attention to the Bobbio monastery, early medieval sculpture, pilgrimages and hospitality in the first centuries of the Middle Ages. Paola Guglielmotti teaches Medieval History at the University of Genoa. She dealt with aristocracies and monasteries, rural communities and problems of organization of the territory (both in the subalpine and in Liguria), of women's heritages and history of historiography; she recently turned to the Genoa office.