At a time when the recomposition of political powers has once again become a central issue on a European scale, the present colloquium proposes a revisiting of a past that, albeit distant, has proved decisive in shaping and consolidating the political structures of the European West. In effect, between the 11th and 13th centuries, the great lines of force that guided the permanent construction and reconstruction of the various European identities were developed. One of the greatest examples is the affirmation of the Roman Papacy and the multiple consequences that resulted from it on all the ecclesiastical and lay institutions of Latin Christendom. In this sense, the study of particular cases, more or less extended, more or less complex, has allowed us to reconstruct and evaluate the flows of the relations that, gradually, were established between the Roman Curia and several states of the European “periphery”. This is precisely the privileged subject of this colloquium, developed largely within the scope of the project “RAP – Sub beati Petri et nostra protectione suscipimus: Re-framing the relations between Rome and the kingdoms of Portugal and Aragon (eleventh-thirteenth centuries)“, developed with the support of a Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant.

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