The long arm of papal authority : late medieval Christian peripheries and their communication with the Holy See / edited by Gerhard Jaritz, Torstein Jrgensen, Kirsi Salonen
Published
New York : Central European University Press, 2005
Peripheries in Question in Late Medieval Christendom / Piroska Nagy -- The Penitentiary under Pope Pius II : the Supplications and Their Provenance / Kirsi Salonen -- At the Edge of the World : whe Supplications from the Norwegian Province of Nidaros / Torstein Jorgensen -- The Supplications from the Province of Uppsala : Main Trends and Developments / Kirsi Salonen -- Pre-Reformation Scottish Marriage Cases in the Archives of the Papal Penitentiary / Irene Furneaux -- Central Europe and the Late Medieval Papal Chancery / Jadranka Neralic -- The Papal Curia and Albania in the Later Middle Ages / Etleva Lala -- East-Central Europe and the Penitentiary (1458-1484) / Piroska Nagy and Kirsi Salonen -- "But if you marry me" : Reflections of the Hussite Movement in the Penitentiary (1438-1483) / Lucie Dolezalova -- Social and Territorial Endogamy in the Ragusan Republic : Matrimonial Dispenses during the Pontificates of Paul II and Sixtus IV (1464-1484) / Ana Marinkovic -- Rodolfo Gonzaga (1452-1495) : News on a Celebrity Murder Case / Gastone Saletnich and Wolfgang Muller -- Church and Secular Courts in Upper Hungary (Fourteenth to Sixteenth Century) / Blanka Szeghyova -- Penitentiary Documents from Outside the Penitentiary / Ludwig Schmugge -- Patterns and Levels of Periphery? / Gerhard Jaritz
Summary
The volume contains selected papers from two conferences in 2003, at the University of Bergen (Norway) and at CEU. They deal comparatively with the communication of the Holy See with Northern Europe and Eastern Central Europe in the Late Middle Ages, both areas at the margins of Western Christendom. Special emphasis is placed on the analysis of the registers of the Apostolic Penitentiary
