Academic work on conflict resolution: Disputes in the monastery

Description

Konflikt, intrigues and maybe even a murder in the monastery? No, not a fictitious story, but a true, historically authentic event: In the year 783, an abbot in the southern Italian monastery of San Vincenzo al Volturno was deposed by Charlemagne and summoned to court because he allegedly the Franks, who at that time large parts of Italy had occupied insulted had. Before that, the previous abbot had died under mysterious circumstances.

The case, however, is much more than a small, regional, inner-monastic conflict. On the one hand, Charles the Great as well as the Pope showed an excessive interest in the case. On the other hand, an ethnic conflict between Langobards and Franks can be assumed. A small insult was thus unusually political.

The motives of all involved

The relatively poor source situation - the case is reported by only two letters from the Pope - has given rise to violent speculation in the specialist literature, especially since the case is related to the Lombard Resistance was seen in the Benevento.

The work exposes the stories of those involved in the conflict and theirs Motivation This includes not only the monks of the monastery, but also Charlemagne, Duke Hildeprand of Spoleto and the Pope. In this regard, the network is not always light to transparent political complications after the conquest of the Lombard kingdom in Italy at that time.

The role distribution

A special emphasis is placed on the role of the pope. In the context of conflict and political interdependence, the pope had a special position in several respects: not only that he was the one who ultimately led the conquest of the Lombard kingdom, and that in the following years he repeatedly persuaded the Frankish king, but also his letters to Charlemagne are the sources for a multitude of events, but especially for the conflict around Abbot Potho.

And be too Behavior during the conflict, his actions as mediator and judge, and the normative texts that the Basics of his actions are interesting. In addition, the case will also be examined from a legal historical perspective.