Stefano Manganaro
Università degli Studi di Bari, Dipartimento di Ricerca e Innovazione Umanistica (DIRIUM), Postdoctoral Researcher
After graduating from the Università degli Studi di Torino, Stefano Manganaro obtained his PhD in Medieval Studies from the Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane (SUM/Palazzo Strozzi) in Florence. He has held a three-year postdoctoral scholarship from the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Storici (IISS) in Naples, in the same city he has also worked at the Società Napoletana di Storia Patria (SNSP/Maschio Angioino), and he has been a two-year postdoctoral researcher at the Università di Pisa. A relevant part of his academic path has been made in Germany, where he has been a visiting postdoctoral fellow at the following research centers and universities: Forschungsstelle für Vergleichende Ordensgeschichte (FOVOG), Dresden; Internationales Kolleg für Geisteswissenschaftliche Forschung (IKGF), Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU); Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte (MPIeR), Frankfurt am Main; DAAD-Stipendiat at the Universität Leipzig. He also carried out his research activites at German academic institutions abroad, such as the Römische Institut der Görres-Gesellschaft (RIGG) in Vatican City and the Deutsches Historisches Institut (DHI) in Rome. He has taught Medieval History at the Università di Pavia and the Università di Pisa-International Programme in Humanties (UNIPI-IPH). He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Università di Bari.
His research focuses on the mutual interaction between religious beliefs, political thought, and institutional workings in the Early and High Middle Ages. Stefano Manganaro is particularly interested in the Ottonian period (from the tenth to the early eleventh century), when a highly sacred kingship, shaped by a liturgical-monastic mentality, had to cope with weak administrative structures. Early and high medieval institutions were not coherent structures of political organisation, nor were they as strictly formalised as the modern Western view of standardised legal institutions would demand. In his research Stefano Manganaro aims to understand and reconstruct how these institutions could exist and work under such circumstances.
He was awarded the Premio Giuseppe Galasso 2018 (First Edition), receiving this book award for the following monograph: Stabilitas regni. Percezione del tempo e durata dell'azione politica nell'età degli Ottoni (936-1024), Bologna, Il Mulino, 2018.
In 2020 he has obtained the National Scientific Qualification (ASN) to function as Associate Professor of Medieval History in Italian universities.
Stefano Manganaro is a member of the following academic institutions: Centro di ricerca sulle istituzioni e le società medievali - Turin (CRISM); Römisches Institut der Görres-Gesellschaft - Città del Vaticano/Bonn (RIGG); International Society for the Critical Study of Divination - Erlangen-Nürnberg (ISCSD); PSALM-Network (Politics, Society, and Liturgy in the Middle Ages); Società Italiana per la Storia Medievale (SISMED); and Centro internazionale di studi sulle culture del pellegrinaggio (CISCuP). He has been recognized as an Expert in Medieval Studies (Cultore della materia) at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan.
His research focuses on the mutual interaction between religious beliefs, political thought, and institutional workings in the Early and High Middle Ages. Stefano Manganaro is particularly interested in the Ottonian period (from the tenth to the early eleventh century), when a highly sacred kingship, shaped by a liturgical-monastic mentality, had to cope with weak administrative structures. Early and high medieval institutions were not coherent structures of political organisation, nor were they as strictly formalised as the modern Western view of standardised legal institutions would demand. In his research Stefano Manganaro aims to understand and reconstruct how these institutions could exist and work under such circumstances.
He was awarded the Premio Giuseppe Galasso 2018 (First Edition), receiving this book award for the following monograph: Stabilitas regni. Percezione del tempo e durata dell'azione politica nell'età degli Ottoni (936-1024), Bologna, Il Mulino, 2018.
In 2020 he has obtained the National Scientific Qualification (ASN) to function as Associate Professor of Medieval History in Italian universities.
Stefano Manganaro is a member of the following academic institutions: Centro di ricerca sulle istituzioni e le società medievali - Turin (CRISM); Römisches Institut der Görres-Gesellschaft - Città del Vaticano/Bonn (RIGG); International Society for the Critical Study of Divination - Erlangen-Nürnberg (ISCSD); PSALM-Network (Politics, Society, and Liturgy in the Middle Ages); Società Italiana per la Storia Medievale (SISMED); and Centro internazionale di studi sulle culture del pellegrinaggio (CISCuP). He has been recognized as an Expert in Medieval Studies (Cultore della materia) at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan.
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by three privileges: free election, immunity, and royal protection. While the first two
privileges have been extensively investigated, royal protection has attracted little
attention among medievalists, with the exception of German scholarship. The latter
has usually emphasised a specific consequence of the use of this privilege, namely
the transfer of ownership rights over the monastery or the convent from the founders’
family to the king. However, this was just one possible effect of royal protection, not
necessarily the most common or most important. The distinguishing features of this
privilege have been largely ignored, namely its nature as a right in personam, and not
in rem, as well as its jurisdictional content, since royal protection allowed protected
persons to be judged by the royal court. This article aims to explore the full political
potential of royal protection, and to reconstruct the institutional dynamics that the
use of this privilege could trigger in the Ottonian period. Two case studies are analysed
comparatively: Central Italy and Eastern Saxony. Though different and distant from
each other, these two political spaces can be fruitfully compared, as the Ottonians and
the religious communities of these areas deliberately decided to make intensive use of
royal protection to shape their mutual relationships. This comparative study reveals
significant differences in the political application of the privilege in the two regions,
in part reflecting a dissimilar understanding of the idea of royal protection itself. This
privilege established a bilateral and asymmetrical relationship of variable intensity,
which could change in time and space depending on the variable degree of political
autonomy enjoyed by the protected abbot (abbess) and his (her) community as well
as the different attitude of the king, acting as a lenient judge or as lord of those under
his protection.
Nei giorni 10-12 novembre 2016, l’Opera del Duomo di Orvieto in collaborazione con la SISMEL ha riunito studiosi di teologia e antropologia politica per approfondire il tema del rapporto tra Cristo e il potere, che è al centro della teologia politica medievale e moderna, almeno dagli studi di Ernst H. Kantorowicz sulle Laudes regiae in poi. Il convegno ha messo a confronto le modalità – concettuali, metaforiche, rituali, oltre che politiche e istituzionali – che hanno indotto le varie sovranità medievali a porsi in riferimento a Cristo, «Re dei re e Signore dei signori» (Ap 19, 16). Per comprendere le varie strategie fondate su questa complessa cristomimesi, partendo da studi che possono essere considerati come rappresentativi, un’attenzione particolare è stata rivolta alle sovranità universali (Bisanzio, Impero, Papato), ad alcune sovranità regali (Sicilia, Francia, Inghilterra, Napoli, Portogallo, Castiglia), alle corti ducali della Borgogna e di Casa Savoia, oltre che ad aspetti storico-artistici legati a vicende culturali e politiche della cattedrale orvietana.
From the 10th to 12th November 2016, the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto together with the SISMEL has gathered high-level scholars of theology and political anthropology to deepen the topics about the relationship between Christ and power, which is at the center of medieval and modern political theology, at least starting from the
studies of Ernst H. Kantorowicz on Laudes regiae forwards. The meeting has compared the modes – conceptual, metaphorical, ritual, as well as political and institutional – that have induced the various medieval sovereignties to refer to Christ «King of the kings and Lord of lords» (Ap 19, 16). To undertake the various strategies based on this complex Christomimesis, starting with studies that can be considered representative, special attention has been given to universal sovereignties (Byzantium, Empire, Papacy), to some kingdoms (Sicily, France, England, Naples, Portugal, Castile), to the ducal courts of Burgundy and Savoy, as well as to historical-artistic aspects linked with cultural and political events of the Orvietan cathedral.
of monastic estates let the Saxon kings to compensate for dim administrative structures
in building the kingdom, in terms of Herrschaftsverband and not of State.
by three privileges: free election, immunity, and royal protection. While the first two
privileges have been extensively investigated, royal protection has attracted little
attention among medievalists, with the exception of German scholarship. The latter
has usually emphasised a specific consequence of the use of this privilege, namely
the transfer of ownership rights over the monastery or the convent from the founders’
family to the king. However, this was just one possible effect of royal protection, not
necessarily the most common or most important. The distinguishing features of this
privilege have been largely ignored, namely its nature as a right in personam, and not
in rem, as well as its jurisdictional content, since royal protection allowed protected
persons to be judged by the royal court. This article aims to explore the full political
potential of royal protection, and to reconstruct the institutional dynamics that the
use of this privilege could trigger in the Ottonian period. Two case studies are analysed
comparatively: Central Italy and Eastern Saxony. Though different and distant from
each other, these two political spaces can be fruitfully compared, as the Ottonians and
the religious communities of these areas deliberately decided to make intensive use of
royal protection to shape their mutual relationships. This comparative study reveals
significant differences in the political application of the privilege in the two regions,
in part reflecting a dissimilar understanding of the idea of royal protection itself. This
privilege established a bilateral and asymmetrical relationship of variable intensity,
which could change in time and space depending on the variable degree of political
autonomy enjoyed by the protected abbot (abbess) and his (her) community as well
as the different attitude of the king, acting as a lenient judge or as lord of those under
his protection.
Nei giorni 10-12 novembre 2016, l’Opera del Duomo di Orvieto in collaborazione con la SISMEL ha riunito studiosi di teologia e antropologia politica per approfondire il tema del rapporto tra Cristo e il potere, che è al centro della teologia politica medievale e moderna, almeno dagli studi di Ernst H. Kantorowicz sulle Laudes regiae in poi. Il convegno ha messo a confronto le modalità – concettuali, metaforiche, rituali, oltre che politiche e istituzionali – che hanno indotto le varie sovranità medievali a porsi in riferimento a Cristo, «Re dei re e Signore dei signori» (Ap 19, 16). Per comprendere le varie strategie fondate su questa complessa cristomimesi, partendo da studi che possono essere considerati come rappresentativi, un’attenzione particolare è stata rivolta alle sovranità universali (Bisanzio, Impero, Papato), ad alcune sovranità regali (Sicilia, Francia, Inghilterra, Napoli, Portogallo, Castiglia), alle corti ducali della Borgogna e di Casa Savoia, oltre che ad aspetti storico-artistici legati a vicende culturali e politiche della cattedrale orvietana.
From the 10th to 12th November 2016, the Opera of the Duomo of Orvieto together with the SISMEL has gathered high-level scholars of theology and political anthropology to deepen the topics about the relationship between Christ and power, which is at the center of medieval and modern political theology, at least starting from the
studies of Ernst H. Kantorowicz on Laudes regiae forwards. The meeting has compared the modes – conceptual, metaphorical, ritual, as well as political and institutional – that have induced the various medieval sovereignties to refer to Christ «King of the kings and Lord of lords» (Ap 19, 16). To undertake the various strategies based on this complex Christomimesis, starting with studies that can be considered representative, special attention has been given to universal sovereignties (Byzantium, Empire, Papacy), to some kingdoms (Sicily, France, England, Naples, Portugal, Castile), to the ducal courts of Burgundy and Savoy, as well as to historical-artistic aspects linked with cultural and political events of the Orvietan cathedral.
of monastic estates let the Saxon kings to compensate for dim administrative structures
in building the kingdom, in terms of Herrschaftsverband and not of State.
Lecture: "Ottone I a Roma: strategie politiche, persone, schemi culturali e funzioni"
Lecture: "The network analysis in medieval studies: potential and critical issues". Poster: "The relationship network of the abbots of Farfa (1045-1125)"
Lecture: "Ottone II e Ottone III a Roma: riorganizzazione della presenza imperiale e risemantizzazione dello spazio cittadino"
Lecture: "Le ricerche sui palatia regi e imperiali nel regno italico (secc. VIII-XII): per una ricostruzione degli spazi, dei tempi, delle funzioni e delle tipologie"
Lecture: "Ottone II e Ottone III a Roma: forme, linguaggi e simboli della presenza imperiale nella Città eterna"
Lecture: "Pandolfo I Capodiferro (943/961-981) e i suoi diplomi: potere e scrittura in una macroregione strategica nell’età degli Ottoni"
Lecture: "Stabilitas Imperii. Intellectuals and the Right Order of the World in the Ottonian Period (936-1024)"
Lecture: "I rapporti dell'abbazia di Morimondo con l'Impero nel riflesso della tradizione documentaria (secoli XII e XIII)"
Lecture: "Stabilitas regni. Time as a Key Issue for the Theological, Political and Legal Culture in the Ottonian Period (936‐1024)"
Lecture: "Königsherrschaft in the 10th-11th centuries: Italian and German Approaches in Dialogue"
Scholarly approaches to "Verfassungsgeschichte" have changed significantly over the last decades, reshaping research questions, methods, and perspectives. Although these new approaches are now used across the transnational community of medievalists, they were adapted and re-elaborated in different ways by the different national historiographies. Thus, although German and Italian medieval scholarship developed along similar lines for most of the 20th century, their approaches nowadays appear to have moved rather far apart. It is therefore desirable to once again increase scholarly exchanges and cooperation between German and Italian medievalists. This lecture aims to outline some promising approaches to investigating rulership in the 10th and 11th centuries that are the outcome of such a dialogue between Italian and German scholarship. The lecture focuses on the following four themes: "space", "time", "power-sharing practices", and "translations of governance models".
Lecture: "Tra i due Imperi e le due Chiese: Argiro di Bari e la sua mediazione longobardo-bizantina negli anni dello scisma (1040-1068)"
Lecture: "The Ottonian Christocentric Kingship. Rethinking Ernst H. Kantorowicz 60 years after The King's Two Bodies"
https://pracownicy.amu.edu.pl/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/331746/program_maly.pdf
Lecture: "Cristo e gli Ottoni nelle fonti scritte e nelle 'immagini di autorità e di preghiera'"
http://www.sismel.it/tidetails.asp?hdntiid=1577
Lecture: Coping with the Future in the Ottonian Period. Transcendence, Contingency and Lack of 'Herrschaftsrationalität' (from the Tenth to the Early Eleventh Century).
Lecture: "From Immunitas to Mundiburdium. Language and Institutional Shifts in the Royal Charters for Italian Abbeys between the Carolingian and the Ottonian Period"
Lecture: "Immunitas, mundiburdium, libertas. Il contributo dell'abbazia di Farfa alla costruzione del Regno come istituzione dinamica (secoli VIII-XII)"
http://www.vita-religiosa.de/download/PER%20WEB%20Pieghevole%20-%20Convegno%20internazionale,%20Farfa,%20marzo%202015.pdf
Lecture: "Stabilitas imperii. A Crucial Concept of Political Thought in the Early and High Middle Ages"
Lecture: "Stabilitas imperii. Political Theology and Institutional Practices in the Ottonian Empire (10th-early 11th centuries)"
https://imc.leeds.ac.uk/dbsql02/AQueryServlet?*id=30&*formId=30&*context=IMC&conference=2014&sessionId=5014&chosenPaperId=&*servletURI=https://imc.leeds.ac.uk/dbsql02/AQueryServlet
Lecture: "Royal Protection over Monasteries: A Non-Administrative Tool for Stabilizing the Ottonian Realms (from the Tenth to the Early Eleventh Century)".
Lecture: "Stabilitas regni: concetti e funzionamenti in età ottoniana (secc. X-XI)".
DIPARTIMENTO DI STUDI MEDIOEVALI, UMANISTICI E RINASCIMENTALI
FONDAZIONE ABBATIA SANCTE MARIE DE MORIMUNDO
with the SISMEL has gathered high-level scholars of theology and political anthropology
to deepen the topics about the relationship between Christ and power, which
is at the center of medieval and modern political theology, at least starting from the
studies of Ernst H. Kantorowicz on Laudes regiae forwards. The meeting has compared
the modes – conceptual, metaphorical, ritual, as well as political and institutional –
that have induced the various medieval sovereignties to refer to Christ «King of the
kings and Lord of lords» (Ap 19, 16).
To undertake the various strategies based on this complex Christomimesis, starting
with studies that can be considered representative, special attention has been given
to universal sovereignties (Byzantium, Empire, Papacy), to some kingdoms (Norman,
France, England, Naples, Portugal, Castile), to the ducal courts of Burgundy and
Savoy, as well as to historical-artistic aspects linked with cultural and political events
of the Orvietan cathedral