Donald S. Prudlo, Ph.D. (2004, University of Virginia) holds the Warren Chair of Catholic Studies at the University of Tulsa. His research focuses on medieval religious history and thought, on saints and sainthood, and on the Dominican order. He is the author of Thomas Aquinas: A Historical, Theological, and Environmental Portrait (2020), Certain Sainthood (2015), and The Martyred Inquisitor (2009).

• List of Illustrations and TablesNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart 1: The Early Evolution of the Structures of the Roman Curia1 The Versatility of the Early Medieval Papal Officials in the Light of the Liber pontificalisRosamond McKitterick2 Laying Down Papal Law: Archiving Controversy in the Letters of the Collectio AvellanaBronwen Neil3 The Bishop of Rome and his Entourage: the Origins of the Papal CuriaRita Lizzi Testa4 Ex codicibus et ex antiquis polypticis scrinii Sanctae Sedis Apostolicae: Canonical Collections and Archives of the Church of Rome in AntiquityDominic MoreauPart 2: Forming the Medieval Curia5 “Time and Money”: Regulating Appeals to the Roman Curia in the Second Half of the Twelfth CenturyBruce Brasington6 Papal Councils and the Curia in the ‘Long’ Twelfth Century, 1088–1215Danica Summerlin7 A Most Fortuitous Alliance: the Roman Curia and the Mendicant Orders in the Thirteenth CenturyDonald S. PrudloPart 3: Roman Church Governance in the Late Medieval Period8 Nepotism and the Papal Curia between the Eleventh and the Fifteenth CenturiesSandro Carocci9 From the lectores curie romane to the Magistri Sancti Palatii: Education at the Medieval Roman CuriaAnthony John Lappin10 The Papal Penitentiary in the Later Middle AgesPeter D. Clarke11 Administrative and Diplomatic Practices at the Papal Curia between the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries: the ChanceryBarbara Bombi12 Sacra Romana Rota – the Papal Tribunal of Tribunals?Kirsi SalonenPart 4: The Curia in the Early Modern World13 Locating the Renaissance Curia, c.1420–c.1530Miles Pattenden14 Europe and the Roman Curia: Conflicts of the Counter ReformationElena Bonora15 The Congregation of the Council and the Worldwide Provincial Councils, 1564–1622Maria Teresa Fattori16 The Roman Curia and the Eastern Churches, 1500–1800: Diplomacy, Cultural Policy, Mission, and Confessional ControlCesare Santus17 Two Bodies and One Soul: Papal Finances in the Modern Age (1564–1800)Massimo Carlo Giannini18 The New World by Francesco Ingoli, First Secretary of Propaganda FideGiovanni PizzorussoSelect BibliographyIndex

Donald S. Prudlo, Ph.D. (2004, University of Virginia) holds the Warren Chair of Catholic Studies at the University of Tulsa. His research focuses on medieval religious history and thought, on saints and sainthood, and on the Dominican order. He is the author of Thomas Aquinas: A Historical, Theological, and Environmental Portrait (2020), Certain Sainthood (2015), and The Martyred Inquisitor (2009).

• List of Illustrations and TablesNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart 1: The Early Evolution of the Structures of the Roman Curia1 The Versatility of the Early Medieval Papal Officials in the Light of the Liber pontificalisRosamond McKitterick2 Laying Down Papal Law: Archiving Controversy in the Letters of the Collectio AvellanaBronwen Neil3 The Bishop of Rome and his Entourage: the Origins of the Papal CuriaRita Lizzi Testa4 Ex codicibus et ex antiquis polypticis scrinii Sanctae Sedis Apostolicae: Canonical Collections and Archives of the Church of Rome in AntiquityDominic MoreauPart 2: Forming the Medieval Curia5 “Time and Money”: Regulating Appeals to the Roman Curia in the Second Half of the Twelfth CenturyBruce Brasington6 Papal Councils and the Curia in the ‘Long’ Twelfth Century, 1088–1215Danica Summerlin7 A Most Fortuitous Alliance: the Roman Curia and the Mendicant Orders in the Thirteenth CenturyDonald S. PrudloPart 3: Roman Church Governance in the Late Medieval Period8 Nepotism and the Papal Curia between the Eleventh and the Fifteenth CenturiesSandro Carocci9 From the lectores curie romane to the Magistri Sancti Palatii: Education at the Medieval Roman CuriaAnthony John Lappin10 The Papal Penitentiary in the Later Middle AgesPeter D. Clarke11 Administrative and Diplomatic Practices at the Papal Curia between the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries: the ChanceryBarbara Bombi12 Sacra Romana Rota – the Papal Tribunal of Tribunals?Kirsi SalonenPart 4: The Curia in the Early Modern World13 Locating the Renaissance Curia, c.1420–c.1530Miles Pattenden14 Europe and the Roman Curia: Conflicts of the Counter ReformationElena Bonora15 The Congregation of the Council and the Worldwide Provincial Councils, 1564–1622Maria Teresa Fattori16 The Roman Curia and the Eastern Churches, 1500–1800: Diplomacy, Cultural Policy, Mission, and Confessional ControlCesare Santus17 Two Bodies and One Soul: Papal Finances in the Modern Age (1564–1800)Massimo Carlo Giannini18 The New World by Francesco Ingoli, First Secretary of Propaganda FideGiovanni PizzorussoSelect BibliographyIndex

Donald S. Prudlo, Ph.D. (2004, University of Virginia) holds the Warren Chair of Catholic Studies at the University of Tulsa. His research focuses on medieval religious history and thought, on saints and sainthood, and on the Dominican order. He is the author of Thomas Aquinas: A Historical, Theological, and Environmental Portrait (2020), Certain Sainthood (2015), and The Martyred Inquisitor (2009).

• List of Illustrations and TablesNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart 1: The Early Evolution of the Structures of the Roman Curia1 The Versatility of the Early Medieval Papal Officials in the Light of the Liber pontificalisRosamond McKitterick2 Laying Down Papal Law: Archiving Controversy in the Letters of the Collectio AvellanaBronwen Neil3 The Bishop of Rome and his Entourage: the Origins of the Papal CuriaRita Lizzi Testa4 Ex codicibus et ex antiquis polypticis scrinii Sanctae Sedis Apostolicae: Canonical Collections and Archives of the Church of Rome in AntiquityDominic MoreauPart 2: Forming the Medieval Curia5 “Time and Money”: Regulating Appeals to the Roman Curia in the Second Half of the Twelfth CenturyBruce Brasington6 Papal Councils and the Curia in the ‘Long’ Twelfth Century, 1088–1215Danica Summerlin7 A Most Fortuitous Alliance: the Roman Curia and the Mendicant Orders in the Thirteenth CenturyDonald S. PrudloPart 3: Roman Church Governance in the Late Medieval Period8 Nepotism and the Papal Curia between the Eleventh and the Fifteenth CenturiesSandro Carocci9 From the lectores curie romane to the Magistri Sancti Palatii: Education at the Medieval Roman CuriaAnthony John Lappin10 The Papal Penitentiary in the Later Middle AgesPeter D. Clarke11 Administrative and Diplomatic Practices at the Papal Curia between the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries: the ChanceryBarbara Bombi12 Sacra Romana Rota – the Papal Tribunal of Tribunals?Kirsi SalonenPart 4: The Curia in the Early Modern World13 Locating the Renaissance Curia, c.1420–c.1530Miles Pattenden14 Europe and the Roman Curia: Conflicts of the Counter ReformationElena Bonora15 The Congregation of the Council and the Worldwide Provincial Councils, 1564–1622Maria Teresa Fattori16 The Roman Curia and the Eastern Churches, 1500–1800: Diplomacy, Cultural Policy, Mission, and Confessional ControlCesare Santus17 Two Bodies and One Soul: Papal Finances in the Modern Age (1564–1800)Massimo Carlo Giannini18 The New World by Francesco Ingoli, First Secretary of Propaganda FideGiovanni PizzorussoSelect BibliographyIndex