Bonsai of the consanguinities: cultivation and control of incest regulation in the works of Bonizo of Sutri
William North
This paper examines the particular ways in which reformer and bishop B onizo of S utri's ( c. 1045– 1094) treatment degrees consanguinity both his L iber de V ita C hristiana D e arbore parentele modified, reframed, cut authorities on introduced an explicit power episcopal dispensation to guide application these limitations. In this task, onizo's reveals that central problem rules was knowledge: knowledge grades, how match real kinship lines theoretical structures, cope with ignorance consanguinity. The following therein offers a specific case study efforts implement reformed ideas pastoral context.
Early Medieval Europe