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104:, primarily contains excerpts about property rights. There is disagreement among scholars today whether Gregory had a specific political purpose in mind in his selection, or was simply affirming the property rights of the abbey to its own monks. There are also three charters copied in Gregory's hand and bound into a volume with one of his later historical works. These seem to represent an earlier attempt to preserve Farfa's archives that was abandoned in favour of a comprehensive treatment, the
61:, who promptly commissioned him to do it. He began on 19 April, copying every charter in the archives—save leases, which he was planning to do in a separate work. His work was interrupted by circumstances at the monastery, but by 1099 and Berard's death the work was substantially complete down to that year. It was a two-volume collection he titled
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Itaque, sicuti michi a praedicto abbate et reliquis iussum est religiosis senioribus, nichil ex respectu chartarum ex his, quae uidi, minui, nichilque in rerum translatione adauxi, sed uti tunc cum scriberem oculis perspexi, et respectu capere uaeraci potui, rescribere studui, praeter uerborum
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In 1973 a dispute arose concerning the accuracy of
Gregory's copying and his motives at the Deutsches Historisches Instut (German Historical Institute) in Rome. In 1972 Herbert Zielinski had argued that Gregory did little more than he admitted to doing in his preface to the
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prolixas, inutilesque reciprocationes, et transactas qorundam obligationes uidelicet, ne plurimis partium corruptionibus, dius fatigatus, et in scribendo longius immoratus, uolumen efficerem tardius, et fastidiosum, ineptumque ad perscrutandum, et immensum
108:. This edition of three charters is sometimes therefore known as the "Prae-Regestum". In 1125 Gregory's nephew Todinus returned to his uncle's work and added seventy folios of new charters (post-1099) and a few older ones that Gregory had overlooked.
218:, at the annual conference of the Centro italiano di studi sull'alto medioevo (Italian centre for the study of the early Middle Ages), gave an "intemperate" response to Kurze's thesis, but one which has been generally accepted. The
123:'s catalogue of itsfixed ("hereditary") possessions. These massive volumes were not easy to use for the monastery's agents in property disputes, and so, when already in his seventies (in the early 1130s), Gregory composed the
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and what he was apparently commissioned to do: correct grammatical errors. Kurze responded the next year, arguing that the "Prae-Regestum" represents the remains of a larger work which was scrapped in favour of the current
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Quae veraciter elucubrando nichil eis omnino addidums, vel minuimus, nec muativums, sed corruptis partibus rhetorice emendatis, eo respectu quo scripta erant, ea legaliter transtulimus per manus confratris nostri ...
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also contains copies of its most important documents. In this it illustrates the purpose of all
Gregory's historical works: "to defend the abbey's properties by shaping its archival and historical memory".
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Around 1107, perceiving the need for a narrative history of Farfa to complement the documentary version he had already compiled, Gregory began an untitled work that has become known as the
187:, the historical work of Abbot Hugh, which continues from Hilderic's death in 857 down to Hugh's abbacy (998–1039). Besides a chronicle of Farfa's history from its foundation by
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was immensely influential in "setting the tone for the writing of monastic history in Italy in the twelfth century." Among the works it influenced are the
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and "one of the most accomplished monastic historians of his age." Gregory died shortly after 1130, possibly in 1133.
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Collections of the Early Middle Ages (c.400–1140): A Bibliographical Guide to the Manuscripts and Literature
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Studien zu den spoletinischen ‘Privaturkunden’ des 8. Jahrhunderts und ihrer Überlieferung im
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This purpose is clear in the preface to the work penned by John
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Les structures du Latium médiéval: le Latium méridional et la Sabine du IXe siècle à la fin du XIIe siècle
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Power and
Patronage in the Early Medieval Italy: Local Society, Italian Politics, and the Abbey of Farfa,
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This conclusion was accepted by H. H. Kaminsky, "Neufunde zur
Diplomatik der beneventanischen charta",
127:, an index of all the abbey's properties organised topographically by churches and estates. Gregory's
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503:, Atti del IX congresso internazionale di studi sull'alto medioevo (Spoleto: 1983), 609–53.
458:, Atti del IX congresso internazionale di studi sull'alto medioevo (Spoleto: 1983), 231–49.
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Shaping a
Monastic Identity: Liturgy and History at the Imperial Abbey of Farfa, 1000–1125
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he meant heredity, indicating that Farfa's lands remained with it as if hereditary.
527:, 2 vols., Bibliothèque des Écoles Françaises d'Athènes et de Rome, 221. Rome: 1973.
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Carlrichard Brühl, "Überlegungen zur
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Liber gemniagraphus sive cleronomialis ecclesiae pharphensis
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Liber largitorius vel notarius monasterii pharphensis
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Liber Largitorius vel Notarii Monasterii Pharphensis
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