Governing the World:

Papacy and Roman Curia through the

centuries

Research Tools for History and History of Law

Scientific organisation: Benedetta Albani and Massimiliano Valente

Workshop

27 - 29 September 2017

IV Session

Doing Historical Research on the Roman Curia without its Archives

14:00 - 14:50 The Ostpolitik of the Holy See and Yugoslavia

(Massimiliano Valente, Università Europea di Roma)

14:50 - 15:40 The Westpolitik of the Holy See and the United Nations

(Matteo Luigi Napolitano, Università degli Studi del Molise)

15:40 - 16:00 Coffee Break

V Session

The Holy See in the 21st Century

16:00 - 16:50 Gli organi di governo e i tribunali di giustizia della Chiesa Universale

(Enrique de León Rey, Tribunal de la Rota de la Nunciatura

Apostólica de Madrid and Aurora López Medina, Universidad de Huelva)

16:50 - 17:40 The Holy See in the 21st Century: International relations

and historical research

(Round table with Massimo Faggioli, Matteo Luigi Napolitano

and Massimiliano Valente)

Conclusion

17:40 - 18:30 How Roman was Roman Catholicism as a world religion?

(Simon Ditchfield, University of York)

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Archive of the Secretariat of State, 20th Century

Petitions to the Secretariat of State, 20th Century

Wednesday 27th September

14:00 - 14:30 Welcome and Introduction

(Benedetta Albani and Massimiliano Valente)

14:30 - 15:00 Round of introductions of the participants

I Session

The Secretariat of State and Papal Diplomacy

15:00 - 15:50 The Secretary of State and the Early Modern Roman Curia: Archives and

Approaches

(Birgit Emich, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main)

15:50 - 16:20 Coffee Break

16:20 - 17:10 The Secretariat of State in Modern Age

(Massimiliano Valente, Università Europea di Roma)

17:10 - 18:00 La diplomazia pontificia in età moderna e contemporanea

(Gianfranco Armando, Archivio Segreto Vaticano, Città del Vaticano)

Thursday 28th September

II Session

Congregations and Tribunals

09:00 - 09:50 Roman Inquisition and Religious Plurality in Early Modern Time

(Cecilia Cristellon, MPIeR, Frankfurt am Main)

09:50 - 10:40 The Holy See and the Jews: How to Identify Relevant Documents

in the Vatican Archives?

(Thomas Brechenmacher, Universität Potsdam)

10:40 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:50 Pro captu lectoris habent sua fata libelli. Censorship Procedures in the

Roman Congregations of the Holy Office and the Index

in the Early Modern Period

(Bruno Boute, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main)

11:50 - 12:40 The Congregation of Propaganda Fide

(Luca Codignola, University of Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s University,

Halifax)

12:40 - 13:40 Lunch Break

13:40 - 14:00 Visit to the Goethe-Universität‘s Westend Campus

14:00 - 14:50 The Archive of the Congregation for the Eastern Churches

(Athanasius McVay, University of Toronto)

14:50 - 15:40 The Congregation of the Council in Early Modern and Modern Age

(Benedetta Albani, MPIeR, Frankfurt am Main)

15:40 - 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 - 16:50 The Congregation of the Rites between Early Modern and Modern Period

(Simon Ditchfield, University of York)

16:50 - 17:40 By the Papal Well of Grace and Fountain of Justice: The Apostolic

Penitentiary and the Sacra Romana Rota in service of Christians

(Kirsi Salonen, University of Turku)

Friday 29th September

III Session

Reforms and Codification

09:00 - 09:50 General Evolutions of the Roman Curia: Sources and Historiographical

Issues (19th-20th Centuries)

(François Jankowiak, Université Paris Sud)

09:50 - 10:40 La Codificazione del diritto canonico del 1917; la sua riforma del 1983 e il

Codice dei Canoni delle Chiese Orientali

(Enrique de León Rey, Tribunal de la Rota de la Nunciatura

Apostólica de Madrid)

10:40 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:50 Doing Historical Research on the Second Vatican Council: Vatican Sources

and Local Sources

(Massimo Faggioli, Villanova University, Villanova)

Workshop

Some sources under observation

11:50 - 12:40 The Relationes dioecesium sent by Chilean bishops in the 17th century

(Constanza López Lamerain, MPIeR, Frankfurt am Main)

The Correspondence between the Nuncios and the Secretary of State

(Claudia Curcuruto, MPIeR, Frankfurt am Main)

The decrees of the Congregation of the Council

(Alfonso Alibrandi, MPIeR, Frankfurt am Main)

A special kind of Correspondence. Enciphered Letters between the Middle

Ages and the Modern Era

(Jessika Nowak, MPIeR, Frankfurt am Main)

12:40 - 13:40 Lunch Break

13:40 - 14:00 Visit to the MPIeR Library