The medieval Abbey of Farfa : : target of papal and imperial ambitions / / by Mary Stroll.

• Superior document: Brill's studies in intellectual history, volume 74
• VerfasserIn: Stroll, Mary,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, New York : : Brill,, 1997.
• Year of Publication: 1997
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 74.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (319 pages)

This is the first comprehensive study in English about the medieval imperial abbey of Farfa, which played a key role in the period of ecclesiastical reform, beginning in the mid-eleventh century. Its main sources are the Register and Chronicle, compiled by Gregory of Catino, a partisan monk. Controlling strategic property in central Rome and along the coast of Latium, Farfa functioned as a quasi-imperial embassy, supporting the empire in its struggle with the papacy for hegemony. Imperial ties and internal conflicts led to Farfa's loss of liberties and dependency upon the papacy. The book both depicts the competition between the empire and the papacy, and charts Farfa's losing struggle to maintain Benedictine standards and its independence from an expansive papacy.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- INTRODUCTION: ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS -- CHAPTER ONE: FROM A CELL TO A MONASTIC GIANT -- CHAPTER TWO: PROPERTY AND COMPETITION -- CHAPTER THREE: BERARD I AND NICHOLAS II -- CHAPTER FOUR: FARFA BEFORE THE TRIALS -- CHAPTER FIVE: THE OTTAVIANI -- CHAPTER SIX: ARBITRATION: SAN NICOLA IN CARCERE -- CHAPTER SEVEN: THE OTTAVIANI'S DEFENSE: THE DONATION OF CONSTANTINE -- CHAPTER EIGHT: COMPLETION OF THE TRIAL -- CHAPTER NINE: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE TRIAL -- CHAPTER TEN: THE PAPAL ELECTORAL DECREE OF 1059 -- CHAPTER ELEVEN: PANVINIUS ON FARFA'S VERSION OF THE DECREE -- CHAPTER TWELVE: THE DECREE IN THE CHRONICON: A FORGERY -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN: THE CARDINAL BISHOPS IN PAPAL ELECTIONS -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN: THE DECREE: CONCLUSIONS -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN: ORTHODOXA DEFENSIO IMPERIALIS -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN: THE CONTESTED ELECTION -- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: FROM IMPERIAL TO PAPAL PATRONAGE -- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: FREDERICK BARBAROSSA AND THE TWILIGHT OF FARFA -- CHAPTER NINETEEN: CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.