From Thy Blessed Hand: Papal Responses to University Rolls of Supplication from Paris, Oxford and Cambridge / William J. Courtenay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Courtenay, William J., author.

Series:

Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance ; 60.

Late Antiquity and Medieval Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance ; 60

Late Antiquity and Medieval Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Religious Studies.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

One of the richest sources for biographical information on graduates of the universities of Paris, Oxford, and Cambridge in the fourteenth century are papal letters of provision. While those from Paris are available in bound volumes, this book brings together for the first time comparable editions of supplications from university masters at Oxford and Cambridge. They show the topographical range of recruitment, the academic career, the importance of theological study at Oxford, and the predominant role of legal studies at Cambridge.

Contents:

Preface

Abbreviations

Part 1 The University of Paris

1 University of Paris Supplications for Benefices from John XXII to Clement VII

1Benedict XII: University Rotuli as a Means of Control

2Clement VI: The Dawn of Papal Largesse

3Innocent VI: An Unrewarding Decade

4Urban V: The Return of Papal Generosity

5Gregory XI: Reorganization in the Dating of Provisions

6Clement VII: Rotuli in the Time of Papal Schism

7Concluding Remarks

2 Supplications for Benefices by the University of Paris: The Provisions for 1365

1Preservation and Editing of the Rotuli

2University Supplications during the Pontificate of Urban V

3The Stages in the 1365 Process of Supplication and Provision

4Italian Masters at Paris in the Early 1360S

5Conclusions

Part 2 The University of Oxford

3 The Earliest Oxford Supplication List for Papal Provisions

1Appendix

4 Oxford Supplications for Papal Provisions under Benedict XII

1The Method of Reconstructing the Letters of Provision

2Appendix

5 Supplications to the Pope from the University of Oxford before and during the Black Death

Part 3 The University of Cambridge

6 Supplications to the Pope from the University of Cambridge in the Fourteenth Century

1The Rotulus of 1331

2Masters Receiving Provisions Resulting from a Cambridge Rotulus

3The Rotuli of 1363

4Reparatio Rotuli Universitatis Cantabriggie

5The Rotulus of 1366

6Rotulus Universitatis Cantebriggie Super Augmentatione Precedentium Gratiarum Et Aliis

7The Rotulus of 1371

8Draft Rotulus of the University of Cambridge, 1371

7 The Rolls of Supplication from the University of Cambridge in the First Year of Urban V

1Rotulus Universitatis Cantebreggie

2Reparatio Rotuli Universitatis Cantebreggie

3Reformatio Rotuli Universitatis Cantabriggie

8 University rotuli of Supplication before Submission to the Pope

The University of Cambridge, 1371–1399, and the Picard Nation at the University of Paris in 1414

1The Cambridge Rotulus of 1371 Revisited

2The Cambridge Rotuli of 1390 and 1399

3The Rotulus of the Picard Nation in 1414

4The Draft Rotulus of 1414: Editorial Principle

5The Picard Rotulus of 1414

List of Manuscripts Cited

Bibliography

Index of Medieval Names

Index of Modern Names.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789004765207

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004765207 DOI