Parution : Silvia Tita, “Legal Visuality. Exegesis, Ambiguity, and Dissimulation of the Donation of Constantine in the Early Modern Period”, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025
This study is the first to explore the reasons for the intriguing proliferation of the visual theme of the Donation of Constantine in the early modern period and the implications of the theme for the global politics of the papacy. The (in)famous Donation, a document forged in the eighth century, stipulated the endowment of the papacy with the entire “West” by the first Christian emperor Constantine the Great (306-37). Instead of looking at related visual...
