Marriage Advice for a Pope

John XXII and the Power to Dissolve

Patrick Nold (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

206 Seiten

2008
Brill (Verlag)
9789004171114 (ISBN)

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This book reconstructs the scholastic arguments about marital indissolubility and papal power that lay behind John XXII’s 1322 constitution Antique Concertationi. It illustrates the dynamic relationship between canon law and theology, and the tensions between papal authority and academic expertise, that animated a controversial pontificate

The Medieval Church taught that marriage was indissoluble and that consent was the key. Why then could a marriage be dissolved by one spouse joining a religious order after an exchange of consent but before consummation? This question vexed Thirteenth-century academics and, in the fourteenth century, Pope John XXII asked a group of leading theologians and lawyers to study the issue. Position-papers were produced to explain the exception to the rule of indissolubility for chaste monks and nuns, and to explore whether the pope had the power to extend it to celibate priests and deacons. These texts, edited here, were used by John XXII to draft his bull Antique Concertationi (1322). This study reconstructs the story behind the constitution, providing a unique insight into the decision-making process at the Roman curia in Avignon under a controversial pope.

Patrick Nold, D.Phil. (Oxford, 1999) is Assistant Professor of History at the State University of New York at Albany. He is the author of Pope John XXII and his Franciscan Cardinal: Bertrand de la Tour and the Apostolic Poverty Controversy (Oxford, 2003).

Preface
Abbreviations

Part One Introduction
1.The runaway spouse joins a religious order: an inexplicable exception
2.The holdout husband takes up a holy order” an unresolved argument
3.A triptych of consultation: marriage, poverty, magic
4.Introducing the experts
5.Conclusion
6.Post-scriptum
7.Manuscript description
8.Ration editionis

Part Two Edition
I.Dicta fratris Vitalis de Furno
II.Dicta fratris Bertrandi de Turre
III.Dicta eiusdem domini Cardinalis
IV.Dicta domini Gaucelmi Iohannis
V.Dicta domini Bertrandi de Monte Faventino
VI.Dicta domini Petri Textoris
VII.Dicta domini Arnardi Roiardi
VIII.Idem Episcopus
IX.Dicta domini Durandi
X.Idem Episcopus
XI.Dicta fratis Gregorii
XII.Dicta fratis Hervei
XIII.Dicta fratis Iohannis de Alesto
XIV.Dicta fratis Iohannis de Reding
XV.Dicta fratis Iohannis de Neapoli
XVI.Dicta magistri Iohannis Panhote
XVII.Dicta fratis Roberti de Anglia
XVIII.Dicta
XIX.Frater Iohannes de Neapoli

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Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.11.2008
Reihe/Serie	Medieval Law and Its Practice ; 3
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 240 mm
Gewicht	667 g
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-13	9789004171114 / 9789004171114
Zustand	Neuware