The Apostolic Penitentiary in Local Contexts

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Editors: Gerhard Jaritz is professor of Medieval Studies at Central European University and senior research fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences Torstein Jørgensen is professor at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bergen and the School of Mission and Theology, Stavanger Kirsi Salonen teaches medieval history at the University of Tampere and is a researcher at the Archivio Segreto Vaticano Contributors: Antonín Kalous Olomouc Etleva Lala Elbasan Ana Marinković Zagreb Jennifer McDonald Bergen Paolo Ostinelli Bellinzona Ludwig Schmugge Rome Milena Svec Goetschi Zurich M E D I E V A L I A 10 The volume contains selected papers from an international workshop in 2005, at the Hungarian Academy in Rome. They aim at investigating the registers of fifteenth-century supplications to the Apostolic Penitentiary of the Holy See and analyse the multiplicity of issues in which a context of the local needs of Western Christians and the central power of the pope had been occurring. The contributions make clear that local and individual factors and practice of Christian faith and religion must not be seen as separated from the global power of the Roman curia. The latter’s influence could become directly important for any individual in any local space, also … et usque ad ultimum terrae (Acts 1:8), on the utmost peripheries of the Christian world. The assistance by the Apostolic Penitentiary was indispensable in a large variety of cases. The occupation with such cases happened in the local and regional space as well as in the globalised centre of the Holy See. Central European University Department of Medieval Studies & Hungarian Academy Rome & Central European University Press Budapest—New York Edited by G. Jaritz, T. JØrgensen,K. Salonen The Apostolic Penitentiary in Local Contexts Edited by Gerhard Jaritz Torstein Jørgensen Kirsi Salonen … et usque ad ultimum terrae The Apostolic Penitentiary in Local Contexts CEU Medievalia – ISSN 1587-6470 2. Guide to Visual Resources of Medieval East-Central Europe Béla Zsolt Szakács, ed. Department of Medieval Studies, CEU Budapest, 2001 3. Oral History of the Middle Ages. The Spoken Word in Context Gerhard Jaritz and Michael Richter, eds. Department of Medieval Studies, CEU and Medium Aevum Quotidianum Budapest and Krems, 2001 4. Aziz Al-Azmeh Ibn Khaldun. An Essay in Reinterpretation CEU Press Budapest, 2003; 2nd ed. 5. People and Nature in Historical Perspective József Laszlovszky and Péter Szabó, eds. Department of Medieval Studies, CEU and Archaeolingua Budapest, 2003 6. Előd Nemerkényi Latin Classics in Medieval Hungary: Eleventh Century CEU Press and AΓAθA Budapest and Debrecen, 2004 7. Monotheistic Kingship: The Medieval Variant Aziz Al-Azmeh and János M. Bak, eds. Department of Medieval Studies, CEU, CEU Press and Pasts, Inc. Center for Historical Studies Budapest, 2004 8. The Long Arm of Papal Authority Gerhard Jaritz, Tornstein Jørgensen, Kirsi Salonen, eds. Department of Medieval Studies, CEU, CEU Press Budapest 2006 9. Catalogue of the Slavonic Cyrillic Manuscripts of the National Széchényi Library Ralph Cleminson, Elissaveta Moussakova, Nina Voutova, eds. Department of Medieval Studies, CEU, CEU Press and National Széchényi Library Budapest, 2006 http://medstud.ceu.hu ; http://www.ceupress.com ...