La storia della conservazione degli atti notarili a Benevento tra tardo medioevo e prima età moderna

The history of the preservation of notarial acts in Benevento in the late Middle Ages and the early modern period

  • Gemma Teresa Colesanti CNR - Istituto di Scienze del Patrimonio Culturale di Napoli
  • Eleni Sakellariou University of Crete
Keywords: Benevento, Notaries, Archives, Papal State, Kingdom of Naples, Notai, Archivi, Stato Pontificio, Regno di Napoli

Abstract

This article examines the notarial profession by focusing on essential features such as the creation-investiture, the examination and matriculation, the organization of professional associations, as well as the development of the conservation of notarial documents from the depositories of individual notaries to organized public notarial archives. By focusing on the city of Benevento, pontifical enclave in the Kingdom of Naples, and by a comparison of sets of rules in the territories of the city’s powerful neighbours, Rome and Naples, we seek to understand the political and institutional significance of these changes between the late Middle Ages and the modern period.

Questo articolo esamina alcuni aspetti della professione notarile a partire dalla documentazione della città di Benevento: la nomina, l’investitura, l'esame di idoneità, l'immatricolazione, l'organizzazione delle associazioni professionali, così come lo sviluppo delle modalità di conservazione dei documenti notarili dai depositi dei singoli notai fino all’organizzazione dell’archivio notarile pubblico nell’enclave pontificia. In maniera comparativa e confrontando la legislazione e le regole del Regno di Napoli e dello Stato Pontificio, si è cercato di capire il significato politico e istituzionale di queste trasformazioni tra il tardo Medioevo e gli inizi dell’età moderna.

Author Biographies

Gemma Teresa Colesanti, CNR - Istituto di Scienze del Patrimonio Culturale di Napoli

Gemma Teresa Colesanti is a researcher at ISPC-CNR of Naples. Her teaching activities include numerous courses and specialist seminars in Medieval History at Università Orientale Naples (2008-2013) and Latin palaeography and archive-keeping. Her research interests include the economic, social and institutional history of the Mediterranean in the late Middle Ages with special emphasis on Aragon Crown. Currently studying the organisation of charity and the development of confraternities in Benevento during the Aragonese period with a particular focus on the role of women in the medieval economy and welfare networks. She was a coordinator of the international research group directed by prof. Blanca Garì of the University of Barcelona on the medieval feminine spirituality: Claustra ‹http://www.ub.edu/claustra/eng› (18 gennaio 2022). She is the author of Una mujer de negocios catalana en la Sicilia del siglo xv: Caterina Llull i Çabastida. Estudio y edición de su libro maestro 1472-1479.  “Anejos” - Anuario de Estudios Medievales”. C.S.I.C. de Barcelona, 2008.

Eleni Sakellariou, University of Crete

Eleni Sakellariou is Associate Professor of European Medieval History at the University of Crete. She was Visiting Professor at the Universities of Sassari and Suor Orsola Benincasa of Naples. She is associated researcher at ISPC-CNR. Her research interests include the economic, social and institutional history of the Mediterranean in the late Middle Ages, with special emphasis on southern Italy; new interpretations of the late Middle Ages and the transition to the Early Modern Period; notarial acts as sources of social and economic history; history of credit, particularly of micro-credit; prosopography and collective biography. She is the author of Southern Italy in the Late Middle Ages: Demographic, Institutional and Economic Change in the Kingdom of Naples, c.1440 – c.1530 (Leiden: Brill, 2012).

Published
2021-12-31
Section
RiMe 9/I n.s. (December 2021). Special Issue