This article investigates two controversies that reveal the deeply intertwined nature of legal strategies and archival practices at the monasteries of Farfa and Monte Amiata around the turn of the millennium. It argues that the protagonists of these cases, abbots knowledgeable in law and the history of their monasteries, pursued markedly…[Read more]

Entry on Aurea Gemma Oxoniensis

Entry on works by Adalbert of Metz

Entry on Latin writings attributed to Ephraem Syrus

This article investigates the ideological implications of Pope Gregory the Great’s beard for Catholic reformers of the sixteenth century. It argues that the portrayal of Gregory as clean-shaven, with a “moderate” beard, or with a long bushy beard (all representations that are to be found in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Roman art and schol…[Read more]

Francesca Romana

Jordanes’ Romana

Entry on the works of Junillus Africanus