The Long Arm of Papal Authority: Late Medieval Christian Peripheries and Their Communication with the Holy See

195 Pages·2005·0.79 MB·English

by  Gerhard Jaritz

THE LONG ARM OF PAPAL AUTHORITY
CEU MEDIEVALIA 8
The Long Arm
of Papal Authority
Late Medieval Christian Peripheries
and Their Communication with the Holy See
Edited by
Gerhard Jaritz, Torstein Jørgensen, Kirsi Salonen
Central European University Press
Budapest (cid:1) New York
(cid:2) Editors and Contributors 2005
Second revised edition
Copy Editor: Judith Rasson
Cover design for the series by Péter Tóth
Cover illustration:
Pope Pius II, Hartmann Schedel, World Chronicle (Nuremberg, 1493), fol. 250
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The long arm of papal authority: late medieval Christian peripheries and their communication with
the Holy See / edited by Gerhard Jaritz, Torstein Jørgensen, Kirsi Salonen.
p. cm. – (CEU medievalia; 8)
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 9637326065 (pbk.) – ISBN 8299702607 (pbk.) – ISBN 3-901094-17-2 (pbk.)
1. Catholic Church. Poenitentiaria Apostolica–History–To 1500–Congresses. 2. Catholic
Church. Curia Romana–History–To 1500–Congresses. 3. Communication–Religious aspects–
Catholic Church–History–To 1500–Congresses. 4. Catholic Church–Europe, Northern–History–To
1500–Congresses. 5. Europe, Northern–Church history–Congresses. 6. Catholic Church–Europe,
Eastern–History–To 1500–Congresses. 7. Europe, Eastern–Church history–Congresses. I. Jaritz,
Gerhard. II. Jørgensen, Torsten Bo. III. Salonen, Kirsi. IV. Title. V. Series.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Tables ....................................................................................................... vii
List of Figures ..................................................................................................... ix
Abbreviations related to the collections of the Vatican Secret Archives ....... x
Preface ................................................................................................................. xi
Piroska Nagy, Peripheries in Question in Late Medieval Christendom ....... 1
Kirsi Salonen, The Penitentiary under Pope Pius II. The Supplications and
Their Provenance ........................................................................................... 11
Torstein Jørgensen, At the Edge of the World: The Supplications from the
Norwegian Province of Nidaros .................................................................. 23
Kirsi Salonen, The Supplications from the Province of Uppsala. Main
Trends and Developments ............................................................................. 39
Irene Furneaux, Pre-Reformation Scottish Marriage Cases in the Archives of
the Papal Penitentiary..................................................................................... 59
Jadranka Neralić, Central Europe and the Late Medieval Papal Chancery . 73
Etleva Lala, The Papal Curia and Albania in the Later Middle Ages ........... 93
Piroska Nagy and Kirsi Salonen, East-Central Europe and the Penitentiary
(1458–1484) .................................................................................................... 107
Lucie Doležalová, “But if you marry me”: Reflections of the Hussite
Movement in the Penitentiary (1438–1483) ................................................ 121
Ana Marinković, Social and Territorial Endogamy in the Ragusan Repub-
lic: Matrimonial Dispenses during the Pontificates of Paul II and Sixtus
IV (1464–1484) ............................................................................................... 135
Gastone Saletnich and Wolfgang Müller, Rodolfo Gonzaga (1452–1495):
News on a Celebrity Murder Case .............................................................. 157
vi
Blanka Szeghyová, Church and Secular Courts in Upper Hungary (Four-
teenth to Sixteenth Century) ........................................................................ 165
Ludwig Schmugge, Penitentiary Documents from Outside the Peniten-
tiary ................................................................................................................. 177
Gerhard Jaritz, Patterns and Levels of Periphery? ......................................... 187
List of Contributors ........................................................................................... 191
LIST OF TABLES
Table 1
Number of cases in each supplication category during Pius’ II pontificate 14
Table 2
The provenance of the cases handled by the Penitentiary during the
pontificate of Pius II 17
Table 3
Reasons to turn to the Penitentiary from different territories (in percent-
ages) 20
Table 4
Number and type of petitions from the Norwegian dioceses 25
Table 5
Number of supplications per year 26
Table 6
The Swedish cases handled by the Penitentiary before 1448 40
Table 7
The wealth and the number of inhabitants of the Swedish dioceses 43
Table 8
The number and percentage of supplications from each diocese 46
Table 9
Distribution of the cases into different categories 47
Table 10
The number and percentage of marriage supplications from each diocese 48
Table 11
The number and percentage of the de diversis formis and de declaratoriis
supplications from the Swedish dioceses 52
viii
Table 12
Different kinds of cases in de diversis formis and de declaratoriis categories 53
Table 13
The number and percentage of illegitimacy supplications from each dio-
cese 55
Table 14
The number and percentage of confession supplications from each dio-
cese 57
Table 15
Scottish cases in the Penitentiary records 62
Table 16
Petitions (in percentages; N=2814) from East-Central Europe to the
Penitentiary (1458–1484) 110
Table 17
Number of case types from East Central Europe (1458–1484) 113
Table 18
Comparative lists of Ragusan families concerning their political power
and involvement in marriages of familial relationship (fifteenth cen-
tury) 147
LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1
Swedish cases handled by the Penitentiary in time-axis 41
Figure 2
Czech cases referring to dioceses 124
Figure 3
Czech cases referring to type 125
Figure 4
Percentage of dioceses within the total of East Central European matri-
monial cases 137
Figure 5
Percentage of different types of cases within the diocese of Dubrovnik 138
Figure 6
Percentage of matrimonial cases among the total of cases within East
Central European dioceses 139