Stefano Manganaro

Stefano Manganaro's research focuses on early and high medieval institutions, which are investigated not as coherent and tightly formalised structures of political organisation, but as political, religious and social aggregates of relative stability. In his studies Stefano Manganaro aims at understanding and reconstructing how these institutions existed and worked. Within this perspective, his research interests mainly concern the mutual interaction between theological-political patterns of thought about the right order of the world, practices of power, anthropological attitudes and legal cultures. His publications investigate the medieval sacred kingship; the relationships between the imperial itinerant court and the leading élites of the Italian cities; royal palaces and tombs; the coexistence of the Romano-Germanic empire and the Byzantine empire; the monastic world with regard to politics, liturgy and spirituality; the perception of time and history according to the schemes of theology of history with its implications for the self-understanding of medieval institutions. Go to the Curriculum vitae