1st Edition
The Apostolic Penitentiary in Local Contexts
148 Pages
by
Central European University Press
The volume investigates the registers of fifteenth-century supplications to the Apostolic Penitentiary of the Holy See and presents an analysis of a multiplicity of issues in which a context of the local needs of Western Christians and the central power of the Pope occurred. The contributions make it clear that local and individual factors and the Christian faith and religion in practice must not... Read more
Introduction, LOCAL NEEDS IN GLOBAL CONTEXTS, MARRIAGE AND SEXUAL CONDUCT, VAGRANTS AND APOSTATES, LOCAL NEEDS IN THREATENED LANDS, List of Contributors
Biography
Kirsi Salonen is professor of European and World History at the University of Turku, Finland. She is specialist of medieval ecclesiastical history and history of law. Her most recent monograph in English is Papal Justice in the Late Middle Ages (Routledge, 2016).
Torstein Jørgensen is professor at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bergen and at the School of Mission and Theology, Stavanger.
