List of Illustrations and Tables Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1: The Early Evolution of the Structures of the Roman Curia 1 The Versatility of the Early Medieval Papal Officials in the Light of the Liber pontificalis Rosamond McKitterick 2 Laying Down Papal Law: Archiving Controversy in the Letters of the Collectio Avellana Bronwen Neil 3 The Bishop of Rome and his Entourage: the Origins of the Papal Curia Rita Lizzi Testa 4 Ex codicibus et ex antiquis polypticis scrinii Sanctae Sedis Apostolicae: Canonical Collections and Archives of the Church of Rome in Antiquity Dominic Moreau Part 2: Forming the Medieval Curia 5 "Time and Money": Regulating Appeals to the Roman Curia in the Second Half of the Twelfth Century Bruce Brasington 6 Papal Councils and the Curia in the 'Long' Twelfth Century, 1088-1215 Danica Summerlin 7 A Most Fortuitous Alliance: the Roman Curia and the Mendicant Orders in the Thirteenth Century Donald S. Prudlo Part 3: Roman Church Governance in the Late Medieval Period 8 Nepotism and the Papal Curia between the Eleventh and the Fifteenth Centuries Sandro Carocci 9 From the lectores curie romane to the Magistri Sancti Palatii: Education at the Medieval Roman Curia Anthony John Lappin 10 The Papal Penitentiary in the Later Middle Ages Peter D. Clarke 11 Administrative and Diplomatic Practices at the Papal Curia between the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries: the Chancery Barbara Bombi 12 Sacra Romana Rota - the Papal Tribunal of Tribunals? Kirsi Salonen Part 4: The Curia in the Early Modern World 13 Locating the Renaissance Curia, c.1420-c.1530 Miles Pattenden 14 Europe and the Roman Curia: Conflicts of the Counter Reformation Elena Bonora 15 The Congregation of the Council and the Worldwide Provincial Councils, 1564-1622 Maria Teresa Fattori 16 The Roman Curia and the Eastern Churches, 1500-1800: Diplomacy, Cultural Policy, Mission, and Confessional Control Cesare Santus 17 Two Bodies and One Soul: Papal Finances in the Modern Age (1564-1800) Massimo Carlo Giannini 18 The New World by Francesco Ingoli, First Secretary of Propaganda Fide Giovanni Pizzorusso Select Bibliography Index.