La Bibbia nella comunicazione scritta di papi e sovrani nell'alto medioevo

This essay examines the presence of biblical pericopes explicitly stated and presented as direct quotations, as well as the presence of recognisable allusions to passages from the Old and New Testaments in the texts (letters and documents) issued by popes and rulers in the early Middle Ages (the study ends in the mid-10th century for papal documents and in the mid-9th century for rulers’ documents). In light of the complexity of early medieval documentary transmission, the essay discusses their origins, tradition, forms and developments, as well as the graphic organisation of the few significant texts that have survived in their original form. The data collected during the study (such as which biblical passages are cited in which documents and the relationship between documents) are presented in tables in the Appendix.