Popular Ecclesiology in the Pre-Reformation: Reading the Pattern of Recourse to Church Courts

The pattern of recourse to late medieval church courts suggests how late medieval Christians imagined their Church. Their choice of defendants, crimes, and punishments allowed them to define their communities. In the case of excommunication for debt, the use of procedural excommunications announced...

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Subtitles:"Le droit : une approche empirique de la religion ?"
Main Author: Lange, Tyler 1981- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:French
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Published: Univ. 2022
In: ThéoRèmes
Year: 2022, Volume: 18
Further subjects:B choir screen
B bidding prayers
B Debt
B jubé
B crédit
B Excommunication
B prône
B Charity
B Charité
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Summary:The pattern of recourse to late medieval church courts suggests how late medieval Christians imagined their Church. Their choice of defendants, crimes, and punishments allowed them to define their communities. In the case of excommunication for debt, the use of procedural excommunications announced from the choir screen after the bidding prayers permitted the exclusion of debtors from the sacramental and economic community. Indeed, failure to pay one's debts was as uncharitable as usury because the two communities were imperfectly distinguished - until c. 1500.
Étudier le recours aux tribunaux ecclésiastiques éclaire comment les chrétiens tardo-médiévaux pensaient l'Église. Le choix de défendeurs, de crimes et de sanctions leur a permis de définir les critères d'appartenance à la communauté. Dans le cas de l’excommunication pour dettes, le recours à des excommunications procédurales annoncées du jubé pendant le prône facilitait l'exclusion des débiteurs des communautés sacramentelle et économique. Ne pas payer les dettes était un acte contre charité parce qu’on a eu de la peine à distinguer les deux communautés - au moins jusque vers 1500.
ISSN:1664-0136
Contains:Enthalten in: ThéoRèmes
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.4000/theoremes.11608