The origins of the registration of petitions in the papal chancery in the first half of the fourteenth century
Year: 2003
Type: article
Abstract: Registers containing copies of petitions addressed to and granted by the pope, called the Registra supplicationum, survive in the Vatican Archives from 1342 on. This paper is concerned with the circumstances in which the papal curia introduced the practice of enregistering petitions, in particular with the questions of when the practice began and why the curia introduced it. It emerges that the earliest satisfactory evidence of the registration of petitions comes from the pontificate of John XXII (1316-1334). On the other hand, it is likely that more systematic arrangements for registration were made under Benedict XII (1334-1342) or, at the latest, Clement VI (1342-1352). The paper suggests that these new arrangements were at least partly made necessary by the reforms of the papal chancery which John XXII instituted towards the end of his pontificate.
Source: Persée
DOI: 10.1400/38070
Author: Patrick Zutshi
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2290875960