1st Edition
Papal Justice in the Late Middle Ages The Sacra Romana Rota
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
PART I: THE TRIBUNAL OF THE SACRA ROMANA ROTA
1 Sources and Research on the Roman Rota
2 The Roman Rota and the Papal Curia
3 The History of the Roman Rota
4 The Organization and Personnel of the Rota
5 The Stages of Rota Processes
6 The Activity of the Rota as Recorded in the Rota Manualia
7 The Litigation of Henricus Meyer over the Parish of Mynämäki
PART II: ROTA PROCESSES IN THE LATE MIDDLE AGES AND ON THE EVE OF REFORMATION
8 The Classification and Number of Cases Heard in the Rota
9 The Geographical Range of Cases heard by the Rota
10 The Length of Rota Processes
11 Appellants
General Conclusions
Sources and Literature
Index of Persons
Index of Places
Biography
Kirsi Salonen is Tenure Track Professor in Medieval and Early Modern History in the School of History, Culture and Art Studies at the University of Turku, Finland.
"Kirsi Salonen’s study of the papal tribunal called the Sacra Romana Rota offers an excellent model of compelling institutional history, and should be useful to scholars of premodern justice and the Catholic Church."
- Jennifer Mara Desilva, Ball State University, US
"The author presents interesting samples of procedural documents, together with notaries’ remarks which cast light on the cycle of audiences in court, holidays, special events in the curia, locations where court sessions were held, and the provisional replacement of judges during illness or temporary absence from Rome."
- Gero Dolezalek, University of Aberdeen, UK
