The Apostolic Penitentiary in local contexts : --et usque ad ultimum terrae / edited by Gerhard Jaritz, Torstein Jørgensen, Kirsi Salonen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jaritz, Gerhard, 1949-

Jørgensen, Torstein, 1951-

Salonen, Kirsi.

Series:

CEU medievalia 1587-6470 ; 10.

CEU medievalia, 1587-6470 ; 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church. Poenitentiaria Apostolica.

Catholic Church.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

129 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Budapest ; New York : Central European University, Department of Medieval Studies : Central European University Press ; Rome : Hungarian Academy, 2007.

Summary:

The volume contains selected papers from an international workshop in 2005, at the Hungarian Academy in Rome. They aim at investigating the registers of fifteenth-century supplications to the Apostolic Penitentiary of the Holy See and analyse the multiplicity of issues in which context of the local needs of Western Christians and the central power of the pope had been occurring.

The contributions make clear that local and individual factors and practice of Christian faith and religion must not be seen as separated from the global power of the Roman curia. The latter's influence could become directly important for any individual in any local space, also ... et usque ad ultimum terrae (Act 1:8), on the utmost peripheries of the Christian world. The assistance by the Apostolic Penitentiary was indispensable in a large variety of cases. The occupation with such cases happened in the local and regional space as well as in the globalised centre of the Holy See. Book jacket.

Contents:

Local Needs in Global Contexts

/ Paolo Ostinelli Penitentiary Evidence and Local Archive Material: The Case of Upper Italy, 1438-1484 7

/ Torstein Jorgensen Canon Law in Norway Illustrated by the Penitentiary Texts: An Example of a European Centre-Periphery Perspective 19

Marriage and Sexual Conduct

/ Jennifer R. McDonald Illegitimate Scots in the Registers of Supplications and the Registers of the Apostolic Penitentiary during the Pontificate of Sixtus IV (1471-1484) 33

/ Kirsi Salonen Diemunda and Heinrich - Married or Not? About a Marriage Litigation in the Consistorial Court of Freising in the Late Middle Ages 43

/ Ana Marinkovic Si et in quantum. The Role of Papal Dispensations in Matrimonial Contracts of Fifteenth-Century Ragusa 61

/ Ludwig Schmugge Matrimonial Dispensation: How the Penitentiary Handled Cases of Impotence 71

Vagrants and Apostates

/ Gerhard Jaritz ...Monasterium ipsum (sine licentia) exivit: A Familiar Image for the Fifteenth-Century Dioceses of Passau and Salzburg? 85

/ Milena Svec Goetschi Thief and Arsonist: The Adventurous Fate of a Runaway Monk 95

Local Needs in Threatened Lands

/ Etleva Lala The Survival of the Catholic Church in Albania during the Period of Direct Contact with the Ottomans (1458-1484) 115

/ Antonin Kalous The Official Papal Policy towards Bohemia and Moravia in the 1460s and Its Relation to the Penitentiary Office: the Case of Olomouc 123.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789637326837

9637326839

OCLC:

128237281