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English royal marriages and the papal penitentiary in the fifteenth century
No full textThe papal penitentiary was the highest body in the later medieval Church concerned with matters of conscience. It granted absolution in cases reserved for papal authority and issued dispensations and licences that were also a papal monopoly. Requests for these papal favours, where approved by the penitentiary, were recorded in registers, and 150 such registers survive in the Vatican Archives for the pre-Tridentine period. Accessible to researchers only since 1983 they represent a major new body of sources for religious, social and cultural history. This Note shows that they are also important for political and diplomatic history since it presents new evidence from the registers of papal dispensations for four fifteenth-century English royal marriages. The couples in question are Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy, and Margaret of York; Edward, prince of Wales, and Anne Neville; Richard, duke of Gloucester (later Richard III), and Anne Neville; Henry Tudor (later Henry VII) and Elizabeth of York. The Note includes an edition of the pertinent entries in the registers and of a letter granting a further dispensation for the marriage of Charles the Bold and Margaret of York; this was issued by a papal envoy to England and is held in the Archives départementales du Nord (Lille). The Note arises from research for a calendar of entries concerning England and Wales in the penitentiary registers to 1503, currently being prepared by the author and Patrick Zutshi for the Canterbury and York Society
The interdict in the thirteenth century: a question of collective guilt
No full textThe interdict was an important and frequent event in medieval society. It was an ecclesiastical sanction which had the effect of closing churches and suspending religious services. Often imposed on an entire community because its leaders had violated the rights and laws of the Church, popes exploited it as a political weapon in their conflicts with secular rulers during the thirteenth century. In this book, Peter Clarke examines this significant but neglected subject, presenting a wealth of new evidence drawn from manuscripts and archival sources. He begins by exploring the basic legal and moral problem raised by the interdict: how could a sanction that punished many for the sins of the few be justified? From the twelfth-century, jurists and theologians argued that those who consented to the crimes of others shared in the responsibility and punishment for them. Hence important questions are raised about medieval ideas of community, especially about the relationship between its head and members. The book goes on to explore how the interdict was meant to work according to the medieval canonists, and how it actually worked in practice. In particular it examines princely and popular reactions to interdicts and how these encouraged the papacy to reform the sanction in order to make it more effective. Evidence including detailed case-studies of the interdict in action, is drawn from across thirteenth-century Europe - a time when the papacy's legislative activity and interference in the affairs of secular rulers were at their height.Readership: Scholars and students of medieval history; theologians, philosophers and legal historians.Contents Introduction1. The justification if the interdict in medieval thought2. Kinds of interdict 3. Laying of interdicts4. The terms of an interdict 5. The interdict in action6. The lifting of interdictsConclusion
Review: Stagnation oder Fortbildung? Aspekte des allgemeinen Kirchenrechts im 14. und 15. Jahrhundert. Edited by Martin Bertram. (Bibliothek des Deutschen Historischen Instituts in Rom, 108.) Pp. xv+425+colour frontispiece. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 2005. €62. 3 484 82108 6; 0070 4156
No full textThe Collection of Gilbertus and the French glosses in Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, MS 1407-09, and an early recension of Compilatio secunda
No full textReview: Die Chronik des Saba Malaspina. Edited by Walter Koller and August Nitschke. (Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Scriptores, 35.) Pp. x+430. Hanover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 1999. DM 140. 3 7752 5435 8; 0343 2157
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Review of John C. Wei, Gratian the Theologian, Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Canon Law volume 13 (The Catholic University of America Press: Washington, D.C., 2016). 358 + xviii pp. ISBN 978-0-8132-2803-7
No full textReview: Blumenthal, Uta-Renate, Anders Winroth, and Peter Landau. Canon Law, Religion, and Politics: Liber Amicorum, Robert Somerville. Washington D.C: The Catholic University of America Press, 2012. Pp. xix, 320. $69.95. ISBN: 978-0-8132-1975-2.
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