Institute for Medieval Studies

Session	528
Title	The Medieval Papacy, c. 500-1500, I: The Periphery Sees the Centre - The Centre Sees the Periphery
Date/Time	Tuesday 5 July 2022: 09.00-10.30
Organiser	Benedict Wiedemann, Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge
	Agata Zielinska, Independent Scholar, London
Moderator/Chair	Benedict Wiedemann, Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge
Paper 528-a	A Problematic Inheritance: The Conflict between Afonso II of Portugal and His Sisters through the Lens of Innocent III's Letters (Language: English) Francesco Renzi, Centro de Estudos de História Religiosa, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto Index Terms: Charters and Diplomatics; Ecclesiastical History; Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 528-b	Sancho II of Portugal, also known as the Rex inutilis: Reframing the Cultural Background of His Deposition (Language: English) Enrico Veneziani, Centro de Estudos de História Religiosa, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisboa Index Terms: Charters and Diplomatics; Ecclesiastical History; Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 528-c	Studying the History of the Medieval Papacy in Russian Imperial Universities of St Peterburg and Yuriev (Language: English) Irina P. Potekhina, Index Terms: Ecclesiastical History; Teaching the Middle Ages
Abstract	This panel takes a multi-perspective view of the papacy, focusing on different perceptions of the institution, medieval and later. Paper 1 looks at Innocent III's relations with Portugal. Paper 2 continues analysing papal-Portuguese relations in the mid-13th century. Finally, Paper 3 takes a historiographical approach, looking at how the papacy was studied at Imperial Russian universities.