Preface. Framing Clement III (Anti)Pope 1080-1100

.Abstrachttps://iris.uniroma1.it/mydspace#t The articles in Framing Clement III, (Anti)Pope, a monographic section of «Reti Medievali - Rivista», are the first fruits of a long-term, collaborative, multidisciplinary research project on papal schisms and the construction of memory, which began in 2010. These collected studies are not intended as a systematic treatment of the life and times of Clement III/Wibert of Ravenna or of his immediate postmortem misfortunes. Our aim instead was and is to view the available evidence through new eyes – or rather through very old ones, according to Carpegna Falconieri’s formulation – and, in so doing, to bring out formerly unrecognized possibilities, in some cases about familiar things: about the eleventh-century reform, for instance; about the expunction of the ancient basilica of S. Clemente from the landscape; and about Clement III’s second burial, with its apparent analogies to Paschal II’s legendary exorcism of the ghost of Nero.