DESTEFANIS , Eleonora

The introduction explains that this collection of studies has been promoted to mark the thousand-year anniversary of the foundation of the diocese of Bobbio (1014) – which has been less studied than the well-known monastery – as well as the reordering of the bishopric's and chapter archives. The documents which can be used to reconstruct the...

By tapping into different disciplines and historiographical traditions, this volume provides a series of syntheses and thorough thematic analyses which enable to contextualize the peculiar case of the bishopric of Bobbio, established in 1014 in the Piacentine Appennine as an offshoot of the well-known monastery of Saint Columbanus. The mass of...