IMC 2007: Sessions
Session 1209: The Papal Penitentiary
Wednesday 11 July 2007, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Peter Douglas Clarke, School of History, Welsh History & Archaeology, University of Wales, Bangor |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Richard Barrie Dobson, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York |
| Paper 1209-a | Jean de Cros, Cardinal Penitentiary, and the Beginnings of the Great Schism (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Daily Life, Ecclesiastical History |
| Paper 1209-b | Apostasy in the Penitentiary Records of the 15th Century: The Supplications of German-Speaking Religious (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Daily Life, Ecclesiastical History |
| Paper 1209-c | Clerical Violence in Late Medieval England and Wales (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Daily Life, Ecclesiastical History |
| Abstract | The Papal Penitentiary was the highest office in the later medieval Church concerned with matters of conscience. It granted absolution in cases that were reserved to the apostolic see, and it also issued dispensations and licences that were also a papal monopoly. The records of the papal penitentiary concern a wide range of issues, notably marriage, violence, monasticism and confession, and are of immense interest for religious, social and cultural history. The registers of this papal office first became available to researchers in 1983 and this session largely presents research based on this newly available source. The papers cover such matters as the outbreak of the Great Schism (1378), clerical violence and runaway religious. |