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Dr Barbara Bombi

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Barbara Bombi is a historian who specialises in medieval ecclesiastical and religious studies.

Dr Bombi studied at the Catholic University in Milan, where she completed her PhD in 2000. In 2001 she was a research fellow at the German Historical Institute in Rome. Between 2002 and 2004 she had a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Padua before moving to Oxford where she took up the post of Lyell Research Fellow in Latin Palaeography at Corpus Christi College. In 2006 she moved to Canterbury after being appointed as a lecturer in the School of History at the University of Kent.

Her research interests cover ecclesiastical and religious history in the High Middle Ages (1200-1450). She also specialises in the medieval papacy and canon law. Dr Bombi has also worked on the Crusades in the early 13th century, writing a monograph on mission and Crusade in the Baltic area during the pontificate of Pope Innocent III. She has also researched the history of the Military Orders, especially the Teutonic Knights in the Fourteenth Century. In the past few years Dr Bombi has edited the register of the representative at the papal curia of Edward II and Edward III and she has started to compile a catalogue of the manuscripts of the Liber Extra (Decretals of Gregory IX), which are preserved in the British Libraries.

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Books

Chapters in Books

  • Legittimazione e tempo. Gli archivi dei procuratori di curia all'inizio del XIV secolo, in A. Kehnel, C. Andenna, C. Caby, G. Melville Paradoxien der Legitimation. Ergebnisse einer deutsch-italienisch-französischen Villa Vigoni-Konferenz zur Macht im Mittelalter (Micrologua Library, 35), Firenze, 2010, pp. 295-306.
  • Petitioning between Avignon and England in the first half of the 14th century, in Medieval Petitions: Grace and Grievance, ed. A. Musson, W. M. Ormrod, G. Dodd, York 2009, pp. 64-81.
  • La disputa tra l’arcivescovo Federico di Riga e l’Ordine Teutonico ad Avignone, in L’Ordine Teutonico tra Mediterraneo e Baltico: incontri e scontri tra religioni, popoli e culture, Atti del Convegno della Commissione Storica Internazionale per le ricerche sull’Ordine Teutonico (Bari-Lecce-Brindisi, 14-16 settembre 2006), Galatina 2008 (Acta Theutonica, 4), pp. 125-151 (in Italian with German translation).
  • Celestine III and the Conversion of the Heathen on the Baltic Sea, in Pope Celestine III (1191-1198). Diplomat and Pastor, edd. J. Doran-D. Smith, Aldershot 2008, pp. 145-159.
  • Registrazioni ufficiali e registrazioni private. Il registro di Andrea Sapiti, procuratore alla curia avignonese, in Papauté, les offices et les charges publiques, XIVe-XVIIe siècle, Collection de l’Ècole Française de Rome, 2007.
  • The Dialogus miraculorum of Caesarius of Heisterbach as a Source for the Livonian Crusade, in Power and Authority, ed. B. Bolton and C. M. Meek, Brepols, Turnhout, 2007.
  • Innocenzo III e la relazione sulle condizioni del Medio Oriente coevo, in Fedi a confronto. Ebrei, Cristiani e Musulmani fra X e XIII secolo, Firenze, 2006, pp. 231-242.
  • Innocent III and the «praedicatio» to heathens in Livonia (1198-1204), in Medieval History Writing and Crusading Ideology, ed. K. Villads Jensen, T. Lehtonen, Studia Fennica Historica 9, Tampere, 2005, pp. 232-241.
  • L'Ordine Teutonico nell'Italia centrale, in L'Ordine Teutonico nel Mediterraneo, ed. H. Houben, Lecce, 2004, pp. 197-217.
  • Gli archivi dei procuratori dell'Ordine Teutonico. Considerazioni intorno a due documenti inediti dell'inizio del XIV secolo, in La memoria dei chiostri. Prima Giornata di Studi Medievali. Laboratorio di storia monastica dell’Italia settentrionale (Castiglione delle Stiviere-Mantova, 11-13 ottobre 2001), edd. G. Andenna-R. Salvarani, Brescia, 2002, pp. 257-267.
  • La «Legimus in Daniele» (Reg. VII, 154). Innocenzo III e l’unione con la Chiesa greca nel novembre del 1204, in Studi sull’Europa medievale, a cura di A. Ambrosioni, Alessandria, 2001, pp. 117-137.
  • Innocent III and the Origin of the Sword Brethren, in The Military Orders. History and heritage, vol. III, ed. W. J. Zajac, Aldershot.

Articles

  • *Forthcoming* An archival Network: the Teutonic Knights in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Proceedings of the Anglo-Scandinavian Conference, Studies in Church History, Subsidies.
  • The Babylonian captivity of Petraccolo Parenzi dell’Incisa, father of Francesco Petrarca, Historical Research 83 (2010), pp. 431-443.
  • ‘The Register of Andrea Sapiti, proctor of the Avignon curia’, in English Historical Review 123 (2008), pp. 132-148.
  • Einige Beispiele für Geschäftsgang der Suppliken im ersten Viertel des 14. Jahrhunderts, anhand des Registers des Kurienprokurators Andrea Sapiti, «Archiv für Diplomatik», 51, 2005, pp. 253-283.
  • Andrea Sapiti, un procuratore Trecentesco, fra la curia avignonese, Firenze e l'Inghilterra, «Mélanges de l'École française de Rome. Moyen Âge», 115/1, 2003, pp. 897-929.
  • Due inediti rotoli pergamenacei. L'Ordine Teutonico e la sua organizzazione archivistica al principio del XIV secolo, «Scrineum», 1, 2003.
  • Un documento inedito di Uguccione, vescovo di Novara († 1330-1331ca), «Novarien.», 31, 2002, pp. 213-222.
  • Un inedito memoriale dell’Archivio dei procuratori dell’Ordine Teutonico del principio del XIV secolo, «Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken», 82, 2002, pp. 47-121.
  • I procuratori dell’Ordine Teutonico tra il XIII e XIV secolo. Studi sopra un inedito rotolo pergamenaceo del Geheimes Staatsarchiv PK di Berlino, «Römische Historische Mitteilungen», 44, 2002, pp. 193-297.
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  • Member of the Church, Law and Society in the Middle Ages (CLASMA) Research Network
  • Member of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. (1999-2003)
  • Member of the The Ecclesiastical History Society.
  • Member of the Canterbury and York Society.
  • Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
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