Abstract
In the letter «to all the faithful to Jesus Christ» – to be dated to 1246, and
not to 1248 (as affirmed by its editor E. Winkelmann) –, the Dominican Arnold,
close to Friedrich II, formulates twenty-five charges against Innocent
IV and announces the imminent trial to the latter, which will culminate in his
divine condemnation. The letter is a further testimony of the brief phase in
which the emperor, reacting against the deposition judgment issued by the
Pope against him at the Council of Lyon (July 1245), addressed the kings and
the faithful invoking a general and radical reform of the Church in an evangelical
direction. Aiming at Innocent’s deposition and at the replacement of
the Roman hierarchy with friars loyal to Friedrich, Arnold’s vision uncovers
the broader resistance of certain Dominican sectors vis-à-vis the Pope, and
represents a significant historical and doctrinal document on the climate in
which the emperor conceived the aborted expedition to Lyon, which is characterized
by the proliferation of texts of propaganda replete of prophetical
promises and apocalyptical threats.
Titolo tradotto del contributo | [Autom. eng. transl.] The Dominican Arnoldo and the "deposition sentence" of Innocent IV |
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Lingua originale | Italian |
pagine (da-a) | 405-420 |
Numero di pagine | 16 |
Rivista | Rivista di Storia del Christianesino |
Volume | 9 |
Stato di pubblicazione | Pubblicato - 2012 |
Keywords
- Dominicans
- Fr. Arnold OP
- Frederick II
- Propaganda
- Prophecy