medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Tom Izbicki schrieb:
> I just found in the Innocent VIII volume of Repertorium
> poenitentiariae Germanicum (no. 1789) a cleric claiming that when he
> was a baron's notary saying he went to war with his employer but
> killed no one. He still sought absolution for having been involved in
> arrangements for war. I suspect that a thorough study of the
> Penitentiary records would show other examples of a cleric going to
> the curia because of involvement in any form of bloodshed.
yes, there are lots of such cases, including drunken brawls in taverns
or lending one's cloak to a guardsman who then arrested a thief to be
executed. Most of these supplicants were ordained already, at least in
lower orders, but not all of them, as Rosemary is pointing out. Some
feared to have contracted a possibly harmful irregularity even as
minors. By the 15th c., there was much readines for litigation, and the
rules in which cases a papal dispensation was needed had been greatly
extended.
Filippo Tamburini, Ludwig Schmugge, Kirsi Salonen and others have
published a wide range of studies on such matters.
best, h.w.
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