Les patrimoines de l’Église romaine jusqu’à la mort de Grégoire le Grand. Dépouillement et réflexions préliminaires à une étude sur le rôle temporel des évêques de Rome durant l’Antiquité la plus tardive

As its subtitle implies, this paper is not a complete history of the patrimonies of the Roman church until the death of Gregory the Great. It is rather a detailed status quaestionis prelimany to a study in progress about the development of the temporal role of the Roman bishops in latest Antiquity (440-604). It is proposed to look at all the sources used in the patrimonial histories published to date, especially since the early 20th Century. The purpose is to raise as many issues as possible. The reader will then find more questions than answers. These problematics will be addressed in four points: 1- from the first attestations of the patrimonies of the Roman Church to the death of Felix III (II) (to 492); 2- from Gelasius I to Silverius (492-537); 3- from Vigilius to Benedict I (537-579); 4- Pelagius II and Gregory I the Great (579-604).