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Kristina Odenweller

Diplomatie und Pergament

Karriere und Selbstbild des gelehrten Juristen Giovan Francesco Capodilista

[Diplomacy and Parchment. The Career and Self-Image of the Legal Scholar Giovan Francesco Capodilista.]

2019. X, 393 pages.

Spätmittelalter, Humanismus, Reformation / Studies in the Late Middle Ages, Humanism, and the Reformation 110

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From Venice to Basel, Florence to Budapest, Mainz, Nürnberg and Bourges – the diplomatic career of the fifteenth century Paduan law professor Giovan Francesco Capodilista spanned not only nearly twenty years, but also covered a wide range of territory. Writing the history of his own family during his stay at the Council of Basel from 1434, Capodilista turned his eye to the past to produce the Capodilista codex, an illuminated manuscript. Kristina Odenweller shows that this both proves his interest in historiographic writing and reveals his strategies to use and manipulate the past to explain, legitimise and shape the present for himself and his family.
From Venice to Basel, Florence to Budapest, Mainz, Nürnberg and Bourges – the diplomatic career of the fifteenth century Paduan law professor Giovan Francesco Capodilista spanned not only nearly twenty years, but also covered a wide range of territory. Writing the history of his own family during his stay at the Council of Basel from 1434, Capodilista turned his eye to the past to produce the Capodilista codex, an illuminated manuscript. Kristina Odenweller shows that this both proves his interest in historiographic writing and reveals his strategies to use and manipulate the past to explain, legitimise and shape the present for himself and his family.
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Kristina Odenweller Geboren 1986; Studium der mittelalterlichen Geschichte, Germanistik und Rechtswissenschaft an der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg i. Br.; 2015 Promotion in Mittelalterlicher Geschichte.

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The following reviews are known:

In: Speculum — 98 (2023), S. 628–629 (Stephen Mossman)
In: Quellen und Forschungen aus Italienischen Archiven u. Bibliotheken — 101 (2021), S. 736–738 (Daniela Rando)
In: Zeitschr. integrativer europ. RechtsG (ZIER) — https://www.koeblergerhard.de/ZIER-HP/ZIER-HP-09–2019/OdenwellerKristina_DiplomatieundPergament.htm (Gerhard Köbler)
In: Historische Zeitschrift — 311 (2020), 481–482 (Heribert Müller)
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