Les cartulaires ecclésiastiques de l’Italie médiévale

The cartularies have been used for a long time only as a historical source, but now they are considered as original works and their production and distribution are studied as a particular documentary phenomenon and as a manifestation of a peculiar practice of writing. They have been studied in France and in other countries, but there is still no repertoire of Italian ecclesiastical cartularies. During the Middle Ages Italian religious institutions have produced (especially in eleventh and twelfth centuries) cartularies compiled by their scribes (sometimes accompanied by chronicles) and, then (from the thirteenth century), documentary collections drawn up by notaries on model of municipal libri iurium. This research aims 1) to draw up a catalog of Italian ecclesiastical cartularies, where each cartulary will be described in detail on the basis of a card model, and 2) to study the phenomenon of production of ecclesiastical cartularies in its various typological and regional manifestations.