Information as a Resource for Juridical Decision Processes. The Emergence of Modern Regimes of Information in Early Modern Papacy (B03)

这些项目分析了旨在解决教皇、地方教会和其他地方当局与世俗权力之间冲突的行政做法。教皇和当地教会之间的关系需要一种形式的互动，这种互动能够克服很大的物理距离。出发点是，软弱的话语在解决冲突方面发挥了特殊的作用。它们对于谈判能力至关重要，并在确定规范、牧民和行政能力的范围方面发挥特殊作用。有理由认为，解决这些谈判进程中的弱点具有一定的功能，因为软弱的言论可以构成一种行动战略，这有助于避免教皇和地方教会之间的分歧。

The projects analyses those administrative practices aiming at the resolution of conflicts between papacy, local churches and other local authorities and secular powers. The relationship between papacy and the local churches required a form of interaction, which was able to overcome large physical distances. The point of departure is that discourses of weakness played a special role in resolving conflicts. They were of prime importance with respect to negotiating competences, and played a special role for determining the extent of normative, pastoral and administrative competences. There is reason to assume that addressing weakness within these processes of negotiation had a certain functionality, since discourses of weakness could constitute a strategy of actions, which helped to avoid splits between papacy and local churches.