I am an historian of the twelfth and thirteenth century papacy. I am currently working on petitions to the pope in the long twelfth century, and on the text known as the 'Roman provincial'. The Roman provincial was a list of all the episcopal sees in Christendom, grouped by province. There are a large number of surviving manuscript copies of the Roman provincial and, through them, one can trace changing conceptions of the political and ecclesiastical geography of Europe. I have previously studied papal overlordship of kings in the eleventh through thirteenth centuries, and my book on this topic (Papal Overlordship and European Princes, 1000-1270) is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.
Benedict Wiedemann | Faculty of History University of Cambridge