Römische Historische Mitteilungen 65/2023, pp. 373-386, 2024/05/01
The completion of the Austrian edition of the papal registers as well as various collections concerning the Iberian Peninsula, and most particularly the Butllari de Catalunya of Schmidt and Sabanés, will now allow historians to advance the work undertaken by Paul Kehr and his team a century ago in deepening our understand-ing of papal relations with Catalonia at the time of the influential Pope Innocent III (1198–1216). It is worth recording that there are letters of Innocent III which are neither in the papal registers nor in the Butllari (which deals with originals) and that these letters are also remain of great historical value. The following is a register of 32 additional letters of Innocent III, mainly copies, concerning Catalonia which indicate the wide-ranging nature of papal government and the extent of the pope’s authority there. While it is hoped that this list may be almost complete, it is indicated that there could yet be more rooms to be added to Kehr’s ‘archivalische Labyrinth’.
