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Central Europe and the late medieval papal chancery

In my contribution I will examine the relations between the late medieval papal chancery and men fro m the East Central European nations: Croatians, Hungarians, Bohemians and Poles. By studying the documetns in some of the most valuable sets of registers of late medieval papal letters, Vatican and Lateran registers and the petitions in the registers of supplications, I have tried to trace their careers. Some of them made a supplication for a simple benefice in their diocese, wh ile others - with degrees in theology in their pockets - applied for the post of a penitentiarius minor in the great Roman basilicas. Some followed well-programmed paths towards the highest posts in the ecclesiastical hierarchy - starting from a low curial officer to become an archbishop or a cardinal. Some had a decisive role in the government of their dioceses or countries, others had important and influential posts in the curia. This paper will be a sketch of some of the most prominent biographies or curious situations seen in the Chancery registers, but not an exhaustive list of all persons working for the Apostolic Chancery and their relations with the East Central Europe in the fifteenth century.

late medieval papal curia, pope, cardinal, papal legates, diplomats and collectors, apostolic chancery, apostolic chamber, consistory, penitentiarii minores,

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