Project description
Power, poverty and the politics of faith
A debate over religious poverty turned political in 1322, when Pope John XXII launched a consultation that questioned the foundations of property and power. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the ProPPS project revisits this turning point through the lens of the Angevin court, where theology, politics, and royal ambition converged. Focusing on King Robert of Naples and his circle of theologians, ProPPS will analyse key texts that shaped the poverty debate. By studying the king’s relationship with the papacy and the Franciscans, the project sheds new light on medieval Europe’s spiritual and political life, shifting the focus from imperial clashes to the nuanced ideas that emerged from a royal court deeply entangled in sacred power.
Objective
The 1322 consultation launched by Pope John XXII on the theological doctrine of Apostolic Poverty is one of the most catalyst moments in European intellectual history, where a question of religious practice evolved and exploded into a question of property, power, and the political state. The MSCA-PF ProPPS is an interdisciplinary project that brings together theological doctrine, religious and political identities, and royal and papal politics within the canvass of the medieval intellectual, spiritual, and political life of the Angevin state and theologians. ProPPS will be the first attempt to map and analyse a collection of texts connected to the patronage of King Robert of Naples, to study the group Angevin theologians as part of an intellectual network within the poverty debate, and to situate the intellectual position of King Robert in his sacral-political symbiosis with the papacy. The project will shift current scholarly focus from the papal-imperial conflict to highlight the intellectual richness and diversity of the theological and philosophical treatises within a complex network of political and religious loyalties. ProPPS has three research objectives: (1) a doctrinal, philosophical, and philological study of a major treatise in the poverty debate by the trusted papal adviser Francis of Meyronnes, of his thoughts on property, social and economic power, and the nature of civil and political state, before proceeding to (2) a prosopographical and doctrinal study of the Angevin theologians and their contributions to the poverty controversy in 1322, on where they stand individually and collectively on the controversy, and finally (3) a macroscopic study of the court of Robert of Naples in its relationship with the Franciscans, the ecclesiastical hierarchy, and the papacy. The project will adopt methods of manuscript studies, conceptual and contextual analysis of selected texts, and document and archive analysis.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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