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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jaritz, Gerhard, 1949-

Jrgensen, Torstein, 1951-

Salonen, Kirsi.

Series:

CEU medievalia ; 10.

CEU medievalia, 1587-6470 ; 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church. Poenitentiaria Apostolica.

Catholic Church.

Penitents--History.

Penitents.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (129 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Summary:

The volume investigates the registers of fifteenth-century supplications to the Apostolic Penitentiary of the Holy See and presents an analysis of a multiplicity of issues in which a context of the local needs of Western Christians and the central power of the Pope occurred. The contributions make it clear that local and individual factors and the Christian faith and religion in practice must not be seen as separate from the global power of the Roman curia. The latter's influence could become directly important for any individual in any local space, even .et usque ad ultimum terrae (Acts 1:8), in the utmost peripheries of the Christian world. It is shown that the assistance of the Apostolic Penitentiary was indispensable in a large variety of cases. Such cases were dealt with both in the local, regional space and in the globalized centre of the Holy See.

Contents:

Frontmatter

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

LOCAL NEEDS IN GLOBAL CONTEXTS

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

Canon Law in Norway Illustrated by the Penitentiary Texts: An Example of a European Centre–Periphery Perspective

MARRIAGE AND SEXUAL CONDUCT

Illegitimate Scots in the Registers of Supplications and the Registers of the Apostolic Penitentiary during the Pontificate of Sixtus IV (1471–1484)

Diemunda and Heinrich – Married or Not? About a Marriage Litigation in the Consistorial Court of Freising in the Late Middle Ages

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

Matrimonial Dispensation: How the Penitentiary Handled Cases of Impotence

VAGRANTS AND APOSTATES

monasterium ipsum (sine licentia) exivit: A Familiar Image for the Fifteenth-Century Dioceses of Passau and Salzburg?

Thief and Arsonist: The Adventurous Fate of a Runaway Monk

LOCAL NEEDS IN THREATENED LANDS

The Survival of the Catholic Church in Albania during the Period of Direct Contact with the Ottomans (1458–1484)

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

List of Contributors

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-003-72228-8

1-4294-7826-8

615-5211-38-8

9781003722281

OCLC:

647654521