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> Very interesting -- this is the kind of thing I'm looking for.
> I have a cleric in early C14 England who does not follow a condemned man to the gallows because of his clerical status. It seems to me almost self-evident that this is related to the papal policy on bloodshed, but I'm always reluctant just to state an assumption.
You are certainly right. The registers of the papal Penitentiary,
preserved only from the 15th century onwards, hold many examples of
clerics who were not as cautious as your man, and had to petition for
absolution and dispensation.
For England, cf. Peter D. Clarke, Patrick N. R. Zutshi, eds.,
Supplications from England and Wales in the Registers of the Apostolic
Penitentiary, 1410-1503, vols. 1-3 (Canterbury and York Society
103-105, Woodbridge 2013-2015); for Germany, Ludwig Schmugge et al.,
eds., Repertorium Poenitentiariae Germanicum, vols- 1-9 (Tuebingen 1996
- Berlin 2014), for 1431-1513 (full list:
http://dhi-roma.it/rep_poen_germ.html?&L=11&no_cache=1&sword_list[0]=poenitentiariae)
Best again, Herwig
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