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The Interdict in the Thirteenth Century - A Question of Collective Guilt (Hardcover)
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The Interdict in the Thirteenth Century - A Question of Collective Guilt (Hardcover)
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The interdict was an important and frequent event in medieval
society. It was an ecclesiastical sanction which had the effect of
closing churches and suspending religious services. Often imposed
on an entire community because its leaders had violated the rights
and laws of the Church, popes exploited it as a political weapon in
their conflicts with secular rulers during the thirteenth century.
In this book, Peter Clarke examines this significant but neglected
subject, presenting a wealth of new evidence drawn from manuscripts
and archival sources. He begins by exploring the basic legal and
moral problem raised by the interdict: how could a sanction that
punished many for the sins of the few be justified? From the
twelfth-century, jurists and theologians argued that those who
consented to the crimes of others shared in the responsibility and
punishment for them. Hence important questions are raised about
medieval ideas of community, especially about the relationship
between its head and members.
The book goes on to explore how the interdict was meant to work
according to the medieval canonists, and how it actually worked in
practice. In particular it examines princely and popular reactions
to interdicts and how these encouraged the papacy to reform the
sanction in order to make it more effective. Evidence including
detailed case-studies of the interdict in action, is drawn from
across thirteenth-century Europe--a time when the papacy's
legislative activity and interference in the affairs of secular
rulers were at their height.
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