Raoul Manselli
Raoul Manselli (born June 8, 1917 in Naples ; † November 20, 1984 ) was an Italian historian who focused on the history of the Middle Ages.
Raoul Manselli completed high school and basic studies up to his doctorate in 1939 on the First Crusade in Naples. He was a teacher in Caserta and Lucca . During the war he worked as a lecturer for Italian in Bremen for a year. In 1953 he received the license to teach ( libera docenza ) and taught in Lecce , Perugia and, since 1961, in Turin , where he was elected a corresponding member of the local Academy of Sciences in 1962. In 1966 he received a chair in medieval history at the University of Rome . In 1971 Manselli became a corresponding member of the Accademia dei Lincei , and in 1977 a corresponding member of the Central Directorate of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica . In the same year he became president of the Centro italiano di studi sull'alto medioevo in Spoleto . Since 1978 he has been a corresponding member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences , since 1980 of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and since 1984 of the British Academy .
His main research interests were heresies and popular religion in the High Middle Ages. In his account L'Europa medioevale , published in 1979, he treated the history of late antiquity to the schism of 1378 on more than 1000 pages . He wrote a work on Francis of Assisi that was published in 1980 and has been published several times since then .
Fonts
- Francis. The brother in solidarity. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau a. a. 1989, ISBN 3-451-21190-4 .
- La religion populaire au moyen age. Problems of method and history. Institut d'Études Médiévales, Montréal 1975.
- Studi sulle eresie del secolo XII. Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo, Rome 1953.
literature
- Ovidio Capitani : Ricordo di Raoul Manselli. In: Segni e riti nella chiesa altomedievale occidentale. Atti delle Settimane di studio del Centro italiano di Studi sull'Alto medioevo , XXXIII, 1, Spoleto 1987, pp. 13–40 ( download as zip file )
- Reinhard Elze : Obituary Raoul Manselli. In: German Archives for Research into the Middle Ages 42 (1986), pp. 745–746. ( Digitized version )
- Horst Fuhrmann : Raoul Manselli: the helper in need. In: Ders .: People and Merits. A personal portrait gallery. Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-47221-4 , pp. 315-318.
- Horst Fuhrmann: Raoul Manselli June 5, 1917 - November 20, 1984. In: Yearbook of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (1985), pp. 231-233 ( online ).
- Edith Pásztor: Raoul Manselli (1917–1984). In: Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 78 (1985), pp. 490-493.
- Diego Quaglioni: Manselli, Raoul. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 69: Mangiabotti – Marconi. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2007.
Web links
- Literature by and about Raoul Manselli in the catalog of the German National Library
- Publications by and about Raoul Manselli in the Opac der Regesta Imperii
Remarks
- ^ Entry at the academy
- ↑ Annuario ANL 1993, p. 357
- ^ Members of the HAdW since it was founded in 1909
- ^ Deceased Fellows . British Academy, accessed July 4, 2020.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Manselli, Raoul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 8, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Naples |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 20, 1984 |