The course will be a brief introduction to medieval papal diplomatic, understood as the analysis of formal structures of papal documents, and of the settings in life that one needs to know to understand them. Thus some thought about the nature of medieval papal government will be involved. The course will also be the occasion for some general discussion of Diplomatic as a method for medievalists. There will be a certain emphasis on the twelfth to fifteenth centuries. Some Latin is needed for this course.

Bibliography:
Jane Sayers, Papal Government and England during the pontificate of Honorius III (1216-1227) (Cambridge, 1984);
Jane Sayers, Original papal documents in England and Wales from the accession of Pope Innocent III to the death of Pope Benedict XI (1198-1304) (Oxford, 1999);
C.R. Cheney and W.H. Semple, Selected Letters of Pope Innocent III concerning England (1198-1216) ( London , 1953);
C.R. Cheney, The Study of the Medieval Papal Chancery: the second Edwards Lecture delivered within the University of Glasgow on the 7 th December, 1964 ( Jackson , 1966)

Maximum: tbc students
AV: tbc

Please bring a pencil: pens are not allowed when valuable manuscript facsimiles are in use