Kurie und Politik: Stand und Perspektiven der Nuntiaturberichtsforschung (Bibliothek des Deutschen Historischen Instituts in Rom, 87)

by Alexander Koller (editor)

The volume contains 22 papers delivered at an international colloquium on the present state and future prospects of research on nunciature reports which took place at the German Historical Institute in Rome, 9-12 October 1996. As in the case of similar conferences at the Institute in the past (in 1971 and 1985), the colloquium assembled historians whose concern with the nunciature reports (a permanent research priority at the Institute) is both editorial and investigative. On this occasion the editing problems were given less prominence, the overriding topic being how research can be used for more far-reaching studies. In the papers themselves, the customary preoccupation with the central items of traditional nunciatorial correspondence is balanced by a noticeable upswing in recent research centering on the Papal Instructions.

544 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1998