Harbingers of the future. Marriage cases during the Pontificate of Innocent III and Lateran IV
The Fourth Lateran Council (1215) under Pope Innocent III had a lasting impact on the reform of the church and the life of the laity. Indeed, scholars of medieval marriage have long regarded the conciliar legislation, canons 50-52, as causing a major sea-change in the canon law of marriage. They hav...
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De Gruyter
2017
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Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte / Kanonistische Abteilung
Year: 2017, Volume: 103, Pages: 178-203 |
| IxTheo Classification: | SB Catholic Church law |
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Law
B Laterankonzil 4. (1215) Vatican Palace B Innozenz III Pope (1160-1216) B Marriage process B Impediment to marriage B History |
| Summary: | The Fourth Lateran Council (1215) under Pope Innocent III had a lasting impact on the reform of the church and the life of the laity. Indeed, scholars of medieval marriage have long regarded the conciliar legislation, canons 50-52, as causing a major sea-change in the canon law of marriage. They have proposed numerous factors which motivated these reforms such as this pope's previous education under the tutelage of Peter the Chanter and his circle in Paris, decretals of earlier popes such as Alexander III, the reasons of 'urgency and necessity', and even cosmic numerology, the last two reasons noted in the Lateran IV decrees themselves. This article argues for an additional inf luence: the individual marriage cases concerning forbidden degrees of relationship that Innocent addressed throughout his pontificate (1198-1216) acted as an inf luential catalyst and an ad hoc preparation for the ultimate formulation of canon 50 which reduced the degrees of forbidden relationship of consanguinity and affinity from seven to four and abolished the impediment of the second and third kinds of affinity. Furthermore, Innocent's experience and decisions concerning earlier marriage cases involving procedural is- sues inf luenced canons 51 and 52 of this council. Eventually, the pope realized that formalized conciliar legislation was necessary. Thus, Innocent attempted in an innovative way through canons 50-52 to streamline, clarify, and define the canon law, stipulating uniform and stringent rules to achieve a pastoral and practical solution so that the Christian faithful could marry and stay married more easily, and obtain annulments and dispensations less frequently. Vorboten der Zukunft: Ehehindernisse während des Ponitifikats von Innocenz III. und dem IV. Laterankonzil. Das vierte Laterankonzil 1215 unter Papst Innocenz III. hatte weit- reichenden Einf luss auf die Reform der Amtskirche und das Leben der Laien. Die Forschung über die Geschichte der mittelalterlichen Ehe hat dabei seit langem die konziliare Normge- bung in den Canones 50-52 als wesentlichen Wendepunkt in der Geschichte des kirchlichen Eherechts angesehen. In der Forschungsdiskussion sind zahlreiche Faktoren herausgearbeitet worden, die diese Reformen herbeigeführt haben, wie etwa die frühere Ausbildung des Papstes unter der Anleitung von Petrus Cantor und seinem Kreis in Paris, Dekretalen früherer Päpste wie Alexander III., der Verweis auf ,Notwendigkeit und Dringlichkeit' und sogar die kos- mische Numerologie, wobei die letzten beiden Beweggründe in den lateranischen Dekreten selbst auch genannt werden. - Im vorliegenden Beitrag wird argumentiert, dass es ein weiteres Einflussmoment gab: Die von Innocenz in seinem Pontifikat (1198-1216) entschiedenen Ehe |
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| ISSN: | 0323-4142 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Savigny-Stiftung, Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte / Kanonistische Abteilung
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