Disabled clerics in the late Middle Ages : un/suitable for divine service? / Ninon Dubourg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dubourg, Ninon, author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central

Series:

Premodern health, disease and disability

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clergy with disabilities.

Disabilities--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Disabilities.

Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Church history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2023]

Contents:

Cover

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction: A Formal Dialogue

Petitions and Papal Letters

Writing Processes in Action

The Status of Disabled Petitioners

1. Legal Origins of the Prohibition on Clerical Disability

Irregularity: Ex Defectu Corporis and Ex Defectu Mentis

Canonical Standards of Normality: Capacity and Image

Personal Responsibility and Mitigating Circumstances

2. Aetiologies of Impairment: Congenital, Geriatric, and Acquired Conditions

The Principal Causes of Clerical Impairment

Writing Disability

3. Joining the Clergy

Examination of Future Clerics

Promotions and Elections

Favourable Circumstances

4. Staying in the Clergy

The Nomination of Coadjutors

Breaking Monastic Rules

Clerical Mobility

5. Leaving the Clergy

Leaving the Workforce

Transferral to Specialist Institutions

Monasteries as Retirement Homes

Conclusion

Index

List of Figures

Figure 0.1 Life cycle of a petition, from supplicants' initial testimony to administrative registration

Figure 0.2 Life cycle of a papal letter granting grace, from composition in the Papal Chancery to receipt by petitioners

Figure 0.3 Status of supplicants identified in petitions and papal letters in the corpus

Figure 0.4 Petitioners identified in pontifical letters: secular vs. regular clerics (one point every fifty letters)

Figure 0.5 Status of secular clerics identified in pontifical letters (one point every fifty letters)

Figure 0.6 Status of regular clerics identified in pontifical letters (one point every fifty letters)

Figure 2.1 Main causes of clerical impairment on 1140 cases (twelfth to fourteenth century)

Figure 3.1 Promotions granted for major and minor orders, with or without cura

Figure 3.2 Cross-referenced data from supplicants and executors 'in e. m.' in the thirteenth century

Figure 3.3 Cross-referenced data from supplicants and executors 'in e. m' in the fourteenth century

Figure 5.1 Recipients of resignation letters

Figure 5.2 Reasons for resignation in papal letters and petitions (when the reason is known)

Figure 5.3 Resigners in receipt of a pension

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 20, 2023).

ISBN:

9789048554324

9048554322

Publisher Number:

99993614979

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.