Clergy and criminal violence in later medieval England and Wales / Peter D. Clarke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clarke, Peter D., author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought ; 4th ser., 128.

Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought ; Fourth series, 128

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--England--Clergy--History--To 1500.

Catholic Church.

Catholic Church--Wales--Clergy--History--To 1500.

Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Church history.

Violence--Religious aspects--Christianity--History--To 1500.

Violence.

Violence--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Physical Description:

xiv, 384 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2026.

Summary:

"Clergy formed a distinct and privileged group in later medieval society as regarded violent crime. Church law was intended to protect them from it, induce them to avoid it, and exempt them from secular justice following it. But in practice, were the clergy so separate from the violent culture around them and different from the laymen who dominated it? In the first full-length study of this subject in the later medieval period, Peter Clarke shows that clergy accused of violent and other crimes increasingly submitted to secular justice like laymen, seeking clerical immunity only as a last resort. It reveals that church authorities, in providing legal redress for clerical victims of lay violence, sought to heal divisions between laity and clergy, not to deepen them. Additionally, it explores the motives and contexts behind clerical involvement in violent crime, both as perpetrators and victims, revealing that clergy often acted similarly to laymen." -- Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

A note on the book's online resource ('texts and cases')

Chapter 1. Jurisdiction over violent clergy

Chapter 2. Protecting clergy from violence

Chapter 3. Clergy and contexts of criminal violence

Chapter 4. Clergy as killers

Appendix 1. The Richard atte Halle case

Appendix 2. Penances imposed by English Church courts in si quis suadente cases.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 356-376) and index.

Other Format:

Clergy and criminal violence in later medieval England and Wales

ISBN:

1108843808

9781108843805

OCLC:

1521466653

Publisher Number:

CIPO000299370