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Yes. I find this book a good point of entry into the subject:
*Salonen, Kirsi.*
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Title: A sip from the "well of grace" : medieval texts from the
apostolic penitentiary / Kirsi Salonen and Ludwig Schmugge.
Publication info: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America
Press, c2009.
Physical descrip: xi, 196 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.).
Series: *Studies in medieval and early modern canon law ; v. 7*
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Contents: The penitentiary in the service of Christians -- Documents.
Subject: *Catholic Church. Poenitentiaria
Apostolica--History--Sources.*
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Added author: *Schmugge, Ludwig.*
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Tom Izbicki
Herwig Weigl wrote:
> 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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