Inquiring into Adultery and Other Wicked Deeds: Episcopal Justice in Tenth- and Early Eleventh-Century Italy
Sarah Hamilton
This article suggests that Italian bishops often had recourse to spiritual penalties when exercising coercive authority over serious offences during the tenth and early eleventh centuries. Tracing history of episcopal jurisdiction from ninth century, where it was supported by Carolingian rulers, into post-Carolingian world centuries, argues for continuity between earlier later periods. It thus revises widely accepted view interest in use such only reemerged period after Gregorian reforms as a consequence political marginalization created emergence communes.
Viator|Open Research Exeter (University of Exeter)