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Supplications from England and Wales in the Registers of the Apostolic Penitentiary, 1410-1503: Volume III: 1492-1503. with Indexes to Volumes I-III

Supplications from England and Wales in the Registers of the Apostolic Penitentiary, 1410-1503: Volume III: 1492-1503. with Indexes to Volumes I-III

Zutshi, Patrick N. R.
Clarke, Peter

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Series: Canterbury & York Society, Book 105

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryReligion General General Christianity

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ISBN10: 0907239781
ISBN13: 9780907239789
Publisher: Canterbury & York Soc
Published: Feb 19 2015
Pages: 412
Weight: 1.85
Height: 1.40 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
First edition of supplications concerning England and Wales from the Apostolic Penitentiary - an essential resource for any historian of the pre-Reformation Church.

The Apostolic Penitentiary was and remains the highest office in the Catholic Church concerned with sin and matters of conscience. The papacy reserved to itself absolution from certain grave sins, and successive popes empowered the cardinal penitentiary in charge of the office to absolve sinners in these reserved cases, which included violence against or by the clergy and abandonment of the religious life. The cardinal was also authorised to grant other favours that were a papal monopoly, including dispensations, notably for marriages between close relatives normally forbidden by church law, and special licences, for example allowing confession to a personal chaplain rather than one's parish priest. Petitioners from across Western Europe requested such favours in their thousands and their supplications shed important new light on religious, social and even political history, covering themes as varied as marriage, sexual deviance, violence, the religious life, popular piety, illegitimacy, and pilgrimage.

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