The Apostolic Penitentiary in Local Contexts

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-963-7326-83-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 148 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 198 g

Reihe: CEU Medievalia - CEU Press

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.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jaritz, Gerhard

Salonen, Kirsi

Jørgensen, Torsten

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, LOCAL NEEDS IN GLOBAL CONTEXTS, MARRIAGE AND SEXUAL CONDUCT, VAGRANTS AND APOSTATES, LOCAL NEEDS IN THREATENED LANDS, List of Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Kirsi Salonen is professor of European and World History at the University of Turku, Finland. She is specialist of medieval ecclesiastical history and history of law. Her most recent monograph in English is Papal Justice in the Late Middle Ages (Routledge, 2016).

Torstein Jørgensen is professor at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bergen and at the School of Mission and Theology, Stavanger.