Flying sheets in the Streets of Milan: an episode of the Late Sixteenth-Century Jurisdictional Controversy
Abstract
This essay investigates the well-known Milanese jurisdictional dispute of 1596-97, which led to the excommunication of jurist and government man Giacomo Menochio. He dwells in particular on the instruments (posters, leaflets) printed by the protagonist of the event and circulated around the city in September 1596, with the aim of informing the inhabitants of the true events that took place. Menochio’s purpose is to prove the falsity of the accusations and thus recover the social relations from which he has been excluded precisely because of the excommunication. In addition, the essay aims to reflect on the historiographical issue of the state-church relationship, in light of some recent discussions that have necessitated a shift in the interpretive paradigm.
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