Irene Bueno
Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà, Faculty Member
- Medieval History, Medieval Studies, Medieval Church History, Medieval heresy, Heresy and Inquisition, Armenian Studies, and 15 morePapacy (Medieval Church History), Avignon Papacy, Heresy and Orthodoxy, Church History, Pilgrimage and travel to the Holy Land, Eastern Christianity, Mediterranean Studies, Catholic Church History, Crusades, Travel Writing, Inquisition, Ecclesiology, Transcultural Studies, Heresy, and Crusades and the Latin Eastedit
- I am fixed-term assistant professor at the University of Bologna and PI of the project "The universal Rome in cross-c... moreI am fixed-term assistant professor at the University of Bologna and PI of the project "The universal Rome in cross-cultural perspective. Perceptions of the Orient at the Papal court in the late Middle Ages", funded by the Italian Ministery for Instruction, University and Research through the programme SIR (Scientific Independence of Young Researchers). After graduating in Medieval Studies from the University of Florence and the Central European University, Budapest, I obtained my PhD from the Department of History and Civilization of the European University Institute, Florence (2010), with a dissertation entitled “Definire l’eresia. Procedure giudiziarie, dibattiti teologici e politica pontificia al tempo di Jacques Fournier/Benedetto XII”. I was research fellow at the Scaliger Institute of Leiden University, at the Robbins Collection of the University of California, Berkeley, and at the Max Planck Institut für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte. Afterwards, I was Rubicon postdoctoral fellow at Leiden University (2011-2012) and Marie Curie Fellow at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris (2013-2015) (Project: Beyond the Frontiers of Latin Christendom: The Avignon Papacy and the East).
email: irene.bueno@eui.eu; irene.bueno@unibo.itedit
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The Franciscan doctrine of absolute poverty became one of the most controversial matters under discussion in the s. Even after John XXII's poverty decrees, it did not cease attracting the attention of prominent theorists. This article... more
The Franciscan doctrine of absolute poverty became one of the most controversial matters under discussion in the s. Even after John XXII's poverty decrees, it did not cease attracting the attention of prominent theorists. This article examines the so-far neglected contribution by the key theologian of the Avignon court and future pope, Jacques Fournier (c.-). His monumental Matthew commentary contains a lengthy discussion of evangelical poverty. Comparing this text with various counsels drafted for the pope, this article brings to light Fournier's stance on poverty, placing it within the debates held at Avignon during the conflict between John XXII and Ludwig the Bavarian.
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This chapter analyses Benedict XII’s Oriental policies from the perspective of diplomatic, religious, and intellectual history. By taking into account papal correspondences and theological treatises, it discusses how the defence and... more
This chapter analyses Benedict XII’s Oriental policies from the perspective
of diplomatic, religious, and intellectual history. By taking into account
papal correspondences and theological treatises, it discusses how the
defence and expansion of Roman orthodoxy was put into practice by the
head of the Roman Church in several regions. The geographical scope
of this examination ranges from the Eastern Mediterranean to the Far
East, offering a comparative analysis of Benedict’s letters concerning the
Greeks, the Armenians, and the Mongols – thereby shedding light on the
pope’s different attitudes towards non-Catholic, non-properly Catholic,
and non-Christian peoples.
of diplomatic, religious, and intellectual history. By taking into account
papal correspondences and theological treatises, it discusses how the
defence and expansion of Roman orthodoxy was put into practice by the
head of the Roman Church in several regions. The geographical scope
of this examination ranges from the Eastern Mediterranean to the Far
East, offering a comparative analysis of Benedict’s letters concerning the
Greeks, the Armenians, and the Mongols – thereby shedding light on the
pope’s different attitudes towards non-Catholic, non-properly Catholic,
and non-Christian peoples.
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Centre de recherches historiques of the École des hautes études en sciences sociales Biblical exegesis played a central role in the theoretical construction of “orthodoxy” throughout the Middle Ages, even as it was progressively... more
Centre de recherches historiques of the École des hautes études en sciences sociales Biblical exegesis played a central role in the theoretical construction of “orthodoxy” throughout the Middle Ages, even as it was progressively formalized into an independent genre separate from theology. Medieval interpreters of Sacred Scripture legitimized their own contributions by linking them to the tradition of early Christian writing, building upon the authoritative legacy of the church fathers and gaining for themselves a place as authorities. While reinforcing Catholic doctrine, exegetes also provided complementary reflections on erroneous, distorted, and deceptive interpretations of the divine word. They sought in Scripture prefigurations of the church's enemies, gleaning from the Bible and the patristic tradition the characteristics of a dangerous population of sinners, dissidents, infidels, and heretics. Alongside polemical, canonical, homiletic, judicial, and hagiographic writings, biblical commentaries made a key contribution to the shaping of the antiheretical discourse of the central and later Middle Ages.