The office of ceremonies and advancement in Curial Rome, 1466-1528 / / Jennifer Mara DeSilva.

• Superior document: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, Volume 230
• VerfasserIn: DeSilva, Jennifer Mara, 1976-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; Volume 230.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (266 pages)
• Notes: This study explores the careers of Agostino Patrizi, Johann Burchard, and Paris de’ Grassi, who served in Rome’s Office of Ceremonies (c.1466-1528). Amid heightened competition, their diverse strategies achieved personal and institutional successes and lasting impacts on the Catholic Church.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Copyright page /; Acknowledgements /; Figures and Tables /; Abbreviations /; List of Pontificates, 1420–1605 /; A Note on Names /; Introduction /; Chapter 1 The Curia and the Office of Ceremonies /; Chapter 2 The Development of the Office of Ceremonies /; Chapter 3 The Office-Holders: Origins and Strategies /; Chapter 4 The Office-Holder’s Great Goal: A Bishopric /; Chapter 5 Tools of the Profession: Ceremonial Diaries and Guides /; Chapter 6 Curial Authors /; Chapter 7 Clerical Ambition in the Papal Chapel /; Conclusion /; Bibliography /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9789004506992; 9789004444935
• ISSN: 1573-4188
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jennifer Mara DeSilva.

This cultural and institutional history explores the careers of men who served in Rome’s Office of Ceremonies during the papal court’s growth period (c.1466–1528), in order to understand how the smallest papal college stands as a model of early modern curial advancement. The experiences and textual contributions of three ceremonialists, Agostino Patrizi, Johann Burchard, and Paris de’ Grassi, show diverse strategies and origins, but similar concerns and achievements. In a period of heightened competition and increasing pressure for regularization and reform, the Office’s professionalization and their combined office-holding, networks, and textual production, reveal how early modern curialists got ahead. This study shows the complexity of successful advancement strategies that were cultivated over decades and stretched far beyond papal support.