I notai del Patriarcato d'Aquileia: uomini delle istituzioni patriarchine (2a metà del XIII secolo)

Notaries of the Patriarchate of Aquileia: Men of the Institutions (2nd half of the 13th century). Objective of the research is notariate in the Patriarchate of Aquileia, through the survey of a very large number of 13th-century (mostly unpublished) notarial sources, so as to define the entity and volume of this phenomenon in the aforesaid chronological and geographical precincts (with an up-to-date list of 353 notaries and a repertoire of 272 signa tabellionum), starting from the biographical (and prosopographical) definition of a series of notaries, the majority of whom had been so far hardly ever studied, with an attentive eye to their functional role as public notaries, but also as of officials in the different (administrative, juridical, ecclesiastical) institutions, and masters in the educational system, of the Patriarchate, as well as of the collective role of this peculiar social (upper-middle) class of well-educated and wealthy persons, not only in the strict exertion of their profession, but also as means of cultural and economic exchange between society, institutions and economic issues as a new standpoint in the general frame of the local history of the time.

Obiettivo della presente ricerca è indagare attraverso lo studio di numerose fonti notarili duecentesche (per lo più inedite) il fenomeno del notariato patriarchino, riservando attenzione e spazio a una visione d’insieme del gruppo sociale dei notai “friulani” duecenteschi (con un elenco aggiornato di 353 notai e un repertorio di 272 signa tabellionum) – anche al di là delle singole biografie, indispensabile punto di partenza – in modo da evidenziarne il ruolo collettivo, e non solo sul piano strettamente professionale, nel quadro della storia locale del XIII secolo, come elemento di unione e scambio tra società, istituzioni e vita economica.