EVENTS
Events: Late Medieval Cardinals Between Crises
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Local:

FLUP

Start Date:

29/05/2025

End Date:

30/05/2025

Hours:

Organization:

CITCEM

Investigation Group

Religious Practices and Sociabilities

Event type:

Congress

Late Medieval Cardinals Between Crises

International Congress Late Medieval Cardinals Between Crises

From the Western Schism to the V Lateran Council (1378-1517)

 

Porto, 29-30 May 2025

Meeting Room 1

Program of the International Congress

 

Thursday 29

 

9 a.m. – Welcome

Paula Pinto Costa (Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto)

Inês Amorim (Scientific Coordinator of CITCEM)

André Moutinho Rodrigues (CITCEM/LaMOP)

 

9H15 – Session 1 – Chair: Kirsi Salonen (U. Bergen)

  • Armand Jamme (CNRS Lyon) – The deepest roots of the Great Western Schism: status and powers of cardinals before 1378
  • Christophe Masson (F.R.S.-FNRS / U. Liège) – The Avignonese Cardinals’ Society: An Insight into Prelates’ Personal Networks during the Great Western Schism (1378-1403)
  • Carol M. Richardson (University of Edinburgh) – The Lasting Implications of Three Popes and Three Colleges of Cardinals

10H45 – Discussion

11:15 a.m. – Break

11H30 – Session 2 – Chair: Luís Carlos Amaral (U. Porto/CITCEM)

  • Ágnes Maléth (University of Szeged) – Cardinal in the time of crises: the diplomatic role of Bálint Alsáni, cardinal-priest of Santa Sabina
  • Mário Farelo (University of Minho) – Were ecclesiastical benefices in commendam a hallmark of cardinal interventionism in Portugal during the 15th century?

12h30 – Discussion

13H00 – Lunch Break

15H00 – Session 3 – Chair: Maria João Oliveira e Silva (CITCEM)

  • Eric Védrenne (Sorbonne Université) – Niccolò Albergati: Fortune and Misfortune of a Cardinal as Exemplar in the 15th Century
  • Nuno de Pinho Falcão (IHLM-UNILAB/CITCEM) – “Tiara et purpura Veneta”: the Correr-Condulmer dynasty and the reform of the Church

16H00 – Discussion

16:30 – Break

16H45 – Session 4 – Chair: Francesco Renzi (CITCEM/UCP)

  • Alexandre Parent (U. Torino/U. Savoie Mont-Blanc) – The cardinals of antipope Felix V: a study through his corpus of bulls
  • Andreas Rehberg (Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom) – Urbi et Orbi! The Role of the Romans in the Cardinals College, from the Late 13th Century to the Sacco of Rome (1527)

17H45 – Discussion

 

Friday 30

 

9:30 a.m. – Session 5 – Chair: André Moutinho Rodrigues (CITCEM/LaMOP)

  • César Costa (CITCEM) – Luís do Amaral (1381-1444): a prelate at the service of the crown in times of reforms
  • Gergely Bálint Kiss (University of Pécs) – Juan de Carvajal, angelus pacis? A papal legate facing the crises and challenges of the 15th century
  • Alexander Koller (Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom) Luigi d’Aragona. A cardinal traveling (1517/18)

11H00 – Discussion

11:30 a.m. – Break

11H45 – Session 6 – Chair: Hugo Ribeiro da Silva (U. Porto/CITCEM)

  • Jessika Nowak (U. Wuppertal) – When Cardinals Embrace Encryption and Transform into the Ciphers Themselves. Diplomatic Practices in the Midst of the Fifteenth Century
  • Pierre-Bénigne Dufouleur (Villa I Tatti) Geographical mobility and diplomatic mediation of a late medieval cardinal: Innocenzo Cybo

(1491-1550)

12H45 – Discussion

13H00 – Lunch Break

15H00 – Session 7 – Chair: Maria Cristina Cunha (U. Porto/CITCEM)

  • Lukasz Zak (Università della Santa Croce) – Around the Pope: The Theological and Political Significance of the Prayers ad circulum
  • Antony Roch (Université de Fribourg) – From collective to individual: the transforming face of cardinal identity in the 15th century
  • Francesco Somaini (Università del Salento) – Crisis and transformations of the cardinalate between the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance

17H00 – Closing Session

  • Kirsi Salonen (University of Bergen)
  • Maria João Oliveira e Silva (CITCEM)
  • André Moutinho Rodrigues (CITCEM/LaMOP)

Organizing Committee:

André Moutinho Rodrigues (CITCEM/U. Porto – LAMOP/U. Paris 1)
Kirsi Salonen (U. Bergen)
Maria João Oliveira e Silva (CITCEM/U. Porto

Scientific Committee:
Agostino Paravicini Bagliani (U. Lausanne)

Alexander Koller (DHI Rom)

Barbara Bombi (U. Kent)

Claudia Märtl (LMU Munich)

David S. Chambers (Warburg Institut)

Hermínia Vilar (U. Évora)

Luís Carlos Amaral (U. Porto)

Maria Cristina Cunha (U. Porto)

Olivier Poncet (École National des Chartes)

Contact:

CITCEM – citcem@letras.up.pt

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