International Congress Late Medieval Cardinals Between Crises From the Western Schism to the V Lateran Council (1378-1517)

Porto, 29-30 May 2025

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)

9:15 a.m. – 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

11.30 a.m. – 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 (Universidade 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) – D. 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 travelling (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

16:30 – Discussion

17H00 – Closing Session

Kirsi Salonen (University of Bergen)

Maria João Oliveira e Silva (CITCEM)

André Moutinho Rodrigues (CITCEM/LaMOP)