Raoul Manselli

Raoul Manselli ( born June 8, 1917 in Naples, † 20 November 1984) was an Italian historian who focuses dealt with the history of the Middle Ages.

Raoul Manselli graduated from high school and undergraduate studies to the doctorate in 1939 on the First Crusade in Naples. He was a teacher in Caserta and Lucca. During the war he spent a year as a lecturer in Italian in Bremen. In 1953 he received the authorization to teach ( libera docenza ) and taught in Lecce, Perugia and since 1961 in Turin. In 1966 he became professor of medieval history at the University of Rome. 1977 Manselli became a corresponding member of the Monumenta Historica Germaniae. In the same year he became president of the Centro italiano di studi sull'alto medioevo in Spoleto. From him comes a 1980 published, several times since then aufgelegtes work on Francis of Assisi. His research interests were the heresies and the popular religion in the Middle Ages.

Writings

• Francis. The solidarity brother. Zurich, inter alia, In 1989. ISBN 3-451-21190-4
• La religion populaire au moyen âge: problèmes de méthode d' histoire et, Montréal 1973.
• Studi sulle eresie del secolo XII, Rome 1953.