Marriage on Trial

Acknowledgments for the German Edition

Acknowledgments for the German Edition The preceding book grew out of many years of being busy with a project of foundational research at the German Historical Institute in Rome. Since 1992, together with my wife, Hildegard SchneiderSchmugge , and my co-workers and assistants, I have been able to edit the Repertorium Poenitentiariae Germanicum for the Institute. So far, seven volumes of this work have appeared. Thousands of supplications are published in them, which form the material basis of this book. The author knows himself to be standing “on the shoulders of giants,” reaching in long succession from Raymond de Peñafort to Stephan Kuttner. He who is well versed in the literature in this field will notice how strongly this work, apart from the works cited in the notes, is indebted to the publications of (in alphabetical order) David d’Avray, Charles Donahue, Jean Gaudemet, Richard Helmholz, Peter Landau, Paul Mikat, Michael Sheehan, and Rudolf Weigand. For this reason, only a list of the unprinted sources used and a select bibliography are appended to this book. The author has also learned much from students who, in the space of their education at the University of Zurich, occupied themselves with themes from the penitentiary petitions: Daniel Rutz, Milena Svec, Barbara Vannotti, Ivan Vyskozil, and Andrea Wild. The notes alone serve as the inventory of sources drawn upon; quotations are marked with quotation marks or, in case they are recorded in Latin, put in italics. I express my thanks to my co-workers and students as well as to my friends Inge Strauch (Zurich) and Erich Kusch (Rome), who read the manuscript at an early stage and gave me valuable sugxvii xviii Acknowledgments for the German Edition gestions. Kirsi Salonen put at my disposal the northern sources she has found. In June 2005, Matthias osthoff (Tübingen) developed a clever program with which I could statistically evaluate the TUSTEP data of the volumes of the penitentiary. The revisions commission of the penitentiary has looked over the manuscript and raised no objections ; the major penitentiary, Cardinal Stafford, has approved the publication. I owe a sincere thanks to Dr. Spiegel from the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft. And finally, my thanks goes to the publisher, Dr. Gottfried Honnefelder, who had the courage to accept this book into the program of his press. Ludwig Schmugge Rome, December 31, 2007 ...