Pallienprivilegien für Apulien zwischen 1063 und 1122

Abstract

 Privilegies of pallium to Apulia between 1063 and 1122

The present study intends to examine the bestowal of the pallium upon apulian bishops between 1063 and 1122 based on the documents drawn up by the papacy. Together with the pallium were not only concessed metropolitan rights, but in the second half of the Eleventh Century it became also a strong instrument of bond and control of the bishops for the so called reforming papacy. The study shows inter alia that in Apulia the pallium was only bestowed to archbishops and it was not only intended as an instrument of control, but particularly as an aid in the reorganization of the southern italian church and an authorizing handle in the hands of the apulian archbishops.