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''The question we are interested in can be approached from <hi rend="underline">three</hi> perspectives: we can approach it, that is, as a <hi rend="underline">question of value</hi> - what value, what meaning, what task do religion and the Church assume for human society, within the totality of the State? But we can approach the same problem from the side of <hi rend="underline">right</hi>, and then the question will sound: what is the legal quintessence of the relations - planned or existing - between State and Church? Both questions are closely connected and complement each other. Church and religion orientate their legal relationship with the state from the task they perform within society - and vice versa: depending on their legal relationship with the state, religion and church will be able to fulfill their <hi rend="underline">task</hi> to a greater or lesser extent. Here we want to deal with both sides of the issue.A large portion of this documentation revolves around the theme Die Konkordatsfrafge. At a more abstract level, one could say that from these documents it is possible to observe how the relationship between religion and society was shaped. Indeed, making this relationship more intelligible with an adequate theory of society could be the task of research.''<br>
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''The question we are interested in can be approached from <hi rend="underline">three</hi> perspectives: we can approach it, that is, as a <hi rend="underline">question of value</hi> - what value, what meaning, what task do religion and the Church assume for human society, within the totality of the State? But we can approach the same problem from the side of <hi rend="underline">right</hi>, and then the question will sound: what is the legal quintessence of the relations - planned or existing - between State and Church? Both questions are closely connected and complement each other. Church and religion orientate their legal relationship with the state from the task they perform within society - and vice versa: depending on their legal relationship with the state, religion and church will be able to fulfill their <hi rend="underline">task</hi> to a greater or lesser extent. Here we want to deal with both sides of the issue.A large portion of this documentation revolves around the theme Die Konkordatsfrafge.''<br>
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At a more abstract level, one could say that from these documents it is possible to observe how the relationship between religion and society was shaped. Indeed, making this relationship more intelligible with an adequate theory of society could be the task of research.<br>
 
==='''Fund Consistency'''===
 
==='''Fund Consistency'''===
 
Following a preliminary inventory, it was possible to trace how the material was presumably ordered by Leiber himself. In the 1960s and in particular after 1963, when Rolf Hochhuth's play The Deputy came out, Leiber was asked on several occasions to respond to accusations concerning the relationship between Pius XII and Nazi Germany. Recovering documentation from decades earlier, he probably ordered it according to the needs of the time.<br>
 
Following a preliminary inventory, it was possible to trace how the material was presumably ordered by Leiber himself. In the 1960s and in particular after 1963, when Rolf Hochhuth's play The Deputy came out, Leiber was asked on several occasions to respond to accusations concerning the relationship between Pius XII and Nazi Germany. Recovering documentation from decades earlier, he probably ordered it according to the needs of the time.<br>

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Leiber Documento PUG.pdf

Birth of the project

Since the opening of the archival fonds of the Holy See relating to the pontificate of Pius XII (1939 - 1958) on 2 March 2020, the documentation of the Jesuit Robert Leiber (1888-1967) has begun to arouse some interest.Making the entire Leiber Fund available to researchers by the Historical Archives of the Pontifical Gregorian University represents an opportunity to consider the selection that has been put in place from its creation to the archiving and later indexing stages.
This project, like the others on this platform, assumes that documentation is communicative and not a perceptual material. The document is considered here as a communicative product. Therefore, like all communication, it is subject to rules of social order, is immersed in a narrative tradition and appears under certain conventions. Its proper place of production and reception is the social system and not individual consciousness.
The researcher has no access to the latter. Precisely with a non-humanist practice of the discipline of history, a certain cognitive gain could be achieved by restoring the centrality of the document as communication, thus describing the evolution of ideas. The intention of the APUG is to make the documentation of the Leiber Fund available to researchers by digitizing it, metadating it, and subsequently transcribing and annotating it.

Religion and Society

At first glance, it seems that the documentation was formed from the opposition of two institutional spheres: the Church and the State. This could be deduced from a text (probably a lecture note) by Leiber himself:

RL 13 - Folder III, Religion u. Gesellschaft. Kirche u. Staat


The question we are interested in can be approached from three perspectives: we can approach it, that is, as a question of value - what value, what meaning, what task do religion and the Church assume for human society, within the totality of the State? But we can approach the same problem from the side of right, and then the question will sound: what is the legal quintessence of the relations - planned or existing - between State and Church? Both questions are closely connected and complement each other. Church and religion orientate their legal relationship with the state from the task they perform within society - and vice versa: depending on their legal relationship with the state, religion and church will be able to fulfill their task to a greater or lesser extent. Here we want to deal with both sides of the issue.A large portion of this documentation revolves around the theme Die Konkordatsfrafge.
At a more abstract level, one could say that from these documents it is possible to observe how the relationship between religion and society was shaped. Indeed, making this relationship more intelligible with an adequate theory of society could be the task of research.

Fund Consistency

Following a preliminary inventory, it was possible to trace how the material was presumably ordered by Leiber himself. In the 1960s and in particular after 1963, when Rolf Hochhuth's play The Deputy came out, Leiber was asked on several occasions to respond to accusations concerning the relationship between Pius XII and Nazi Germany. Recovering documentation from decades earlier, he probably ordered it according to the needs of the time.
The Leiber Fund consists of 14 folders of correspondence containing over 3000 letters and 10 folders, containing lecture notes, drafts for articles or lectures, bibliographical notes, newspaper cuttings and journal extracts. Binder XIX contains the Registers of Letters from 1945 to 1967. A large proportion of these documents have handwritten annotations, even afterwards, which testify to the fact that this documentation was a working material on which he constantly worked. The documents cover a chronological span from the beginning of the 1920s until his death. From a material point of view, they consist of manuscripts, typescripts (often shorthanded) and printed matter. There are very few photographs or materials in non-print media.

Project Stages

  • Conditioning and Conservation

Assessment of the state of conservation of the Fund's documents in order to intervene with targeted restoration, starting with the papers in a precarious state. The main damage is mechanical: tears, gaps and breaks in the edges of the papers.The documents, once numbered, will be cleaned using a dust collector, then interleaved and placed in conservation folders.

  • The online epistolary

The digitized letters will be accompanied by metadata, which includes, in addition to the classical correspondence data, the key concepts and abstracts in English. On the GATE platform, it is possible to semantically annotate (planned entities: Names, Places, Works, Concepts) the texts, increasing the possibility of linking information and knowledge of a documentation that opens up a glimpse into the history of the Church in the 20th century. The letters of some correspondents (cf. the letters of Albrecht von Bayern) were used during seminars and teaching courses.

  • Document Inventory

All the other material in the Fund will be described by means of an analytical inventory accessible online. Only part of these documents, selected by the APUG, may be digitized.

Copyrights

Unless otherwise indicated, all files and contributions (transcriptions, pages, comments) uploaded and submitted to GATE by administrators and users are considered to be released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. All the rights on the images of the manuscripts or other documentation are property of the Historical Archives of the Pontifical Gregorian University (User:ArchivesPUG). If you need high resolution images for your publications or for other usages, please contact us using this form.
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La nascita del progetto

Con motivo dell’apertura dei fondi archivistici della Santa Sede relativi al pontificato di Pio XII (1939 – 1958) avvenuta il 2 marzo 2020 la documentazione del gesuita Robert Leiber (1888-1967) ha cominciato a suscitare un certo interesse.
Per l’Archivio Storico della Pontificia Università Gregoriana mettere a disposizione dei ricercatori l’intero Fondo Leiber rappresenta una possibilità di considerare la selezione messa in essere a partire dalla sua creazione sino alle fasi di archiviazione e posteriormente indicizzazione. Questo progetto, così come gli altri presenti in questa piattaforma, parte dal presupposto che la documentazione sia un materiale comunicativo e non percettivo. Il documento viene qui considerato come un prodotto comunicativo. Pertanto, come ogni comunicazione, è assoggettato a regole di ordine sociale, si trova immerso in una tradizione narrativa e appare sotto determinate convenzioni. Il suo luogo proprio di produzione e di ricezione è il sistema sociale e non la coscienza individuale. A questa ultima il ricercatore non ha nessuna possibilità di accesso. Precisamente con una pratica non umanista della disciplina storica potrebbe ottenersi un certo guadagno conoscitivo ridando la sua centralità al documento, in quanto comunicazione, per così descrivere l’evoluzione delle idee.
L’intenzione dell’APUG è mettere a disposizione dei ricercatori la documentazione del Fondo Leiber procedendo alla sua digitalizzazione, metadatazione, e posteriormente alla sua trascrizione e annotazione.

Nel caso in cui si voglia partecipare al progetto, singolarmente o con il proprio ente di ricerca, si prega di sottoporre a valutazione la propria proposta compilando il form o scrivendo a archivio@unigre.it

Religione e Società

Da una prima analisi sembra che la documentazione sia stata costituita a partire dalla contrapposizione di due ambiti istituzionali: la Chiesa e lo Stato. Questo si potrebbe desumere da un testo dello stesso Leiber:

RL 13 - Faldone III, Religion u. Gesellschaft. Kirche u. Staat

La questione che ci interessa può essere affrontata da tre punti di vista: possiamo porla, cioè, come questione del valore – quale valore, quale significato, quale compito assumono la religione e la Chiesa per la società umana, all’interno della totalità dello Stato? Ma possiamo affrontare lo stesso problema dal lato del diritto, e allora la domanda suonerà: qual è la quintessenza giuridica dei rapporti – progettati o sussistenti – fra Stato e Chiesa? Entrambe le domande sono fra loro strettamente connesse e si completano a vicenda. Chiesa e religione orientano il loro rapporto giuridico con lo Stato a partire dal compito che svolgono all’interno della società – e viceversa: a seconda del loro rapporto giuridico con lo Stato, religione e Chiesa saranno in grado di assolvere al proprio compito in misura maggiore o minore. Qui vogliamo occuparci di entrambi i lati della questione.
Molta di questa documentazione ruota intorno al tema Die Konkordatsfrafge. A un livello più astratto si potrebbe dire che a partire da questi documenti è possibile osservare in quale modo sia stato costruito il rapporto tra religione e società. Potrebbe essere compito della ricerca rendere più intelligibile questa relazione con una adeguata teoria della società.

Consistenza del fondo

A seguito di un preliminare inventario è stato possibile risalire al modo in cui il materiale è stato ordinato presumibilmente dallo stesso Leiber. Negli anni Sessanta e in particolare successivamente al 1963 con la pièce Il vicario di Rolf Hochhuth, Leiber fu invitato a rispondere a più riprese a diverse accuse. Recuperando la documentazione di decenni precedente, probabilmente la ordinò in base alle esigenze di quel momento.
Il Fondo Leiber si compone principalmente dei 14 faldoni di corrispondenza comprendenti oltre 3000 lettere.
Il resto del fondo ancora praticamente inesplorato, composto di un'altra decina di faldoni, si costituisce di appunti per le lezioni, bozze per articoli o conferenze, annotazioni bibliografiche, ritagli di giornale e estratti di rivista. Nel faldone XIX si segnalano i Registri delle lettere dal 1945 al 1967.
Gran parte di questi documenti presenta annotazioni manoscritte anche successive che testimoniano come questa documentazione sia stata un materiale di lavoro sul quale intervenire costantemente.
I documenti coprono un arco cronologico che va dagli inizi degli Anni Venti fino alla morte.
Dal punto di vista materiale si tratta di manoscritti, dattiloscritti (spesso stenografati) e stampati. Sono presenti pochissime fotografie o materiali in supporti diversi da quello cartaceo.

Fasi del progetto

  • Condizionamento e conservazione.

Valutazione dello stato di conservazione dei documenti del Fondo per intervenire con restauri mirati, a partire dalle carte in stato precario. I danni principali sono di tipo meccanico: strappi, lacune e rotture dei bordi delle carte.
I documenti una volta numerati, saranno puliti tramite depolveratore, succesivamente interfoliati e inseriti in cartelline conservative.

  • L'epistolario on line

Le lettere digitalizzate, saranno accompagnate dalla metadatazione che prevede, oltre ai dati classici della corrispondenza, l'inserimento di concetti chiave e abstract in inglese. Nella piattaforma GATE è possibile annotare semanticamente (entità previste: Nomi, Luoghi, Opere, Concetti) i testi aumentando la possibilità di collegamento tra le informazioni e di conoscenza di una documentazione che apre uno spaccato sulla storia della Chiesa del Novecento.
Le lettere di alcuni corrispondenti (cfr. le lettere di Albrecht von Bayern) sono state utilizzate durante seminari e percorsi didattici.

  • Inventariazione dei documenti
Tutto il resto del materiale del Fondo verrà descritto tramite un inventario analitico accessibile on line. Solo parte di questi documenti, selezionati dall'APUG, potranno essere oggetto di digitalizzazione.