A complete reappraisal of the papacy of Honorius II, highlighting the strategies to which this pontificate turned in order to govern ecclesiastical institutions and to deal with secular matters.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
ACKOWLEDGEMENTS
ABBREVIATIONS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1: Honorius II and Roman primacy: continuities and innovations
CHAPTER 2: The instruments used to assert Roman primacy
CHAPTER 3: Honorius's deafening silences: his relations with lay powers
CHAPTER 4: Ecclesiology at work: a case study of Montecassino
CONCLUSION
APPENDIX: A preliminary calendar of the letters of Honorius II
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX

Enrico Veneziani is a Marie Sk¿odowska-Curie Fellow at Centro de Estudos de História Religiosa, Universidade Católica Portuguesa - Lisbon. He received his PhD from University of St Andrews and his postgraduate and undergraduate degrees from Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna. He was a research fellow at Istituto Storico italiano per il Medio Evo and NEH Research Fellow at St. Louis University (MO) before coming to Lisbon in 2021