Archbishop FitzRalph and the Friars at the Papal Court in Avignon, 1357 - 60
On November 8, 1357 Archbishop Richard FitzRalph of Armagh preached the Proposicio ‘Nolite iudicare,’ known also as the Defensio Curatorum, before a full consistory of cardinals at Avignon. This was the opening round of a legal battle in the papal courts over the pastoral functions and privileges of...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
1975
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Traditio
Year: 1975, Volume: 31, Pages: 223-245 |
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| Summary: | On November 8, 1357 Archbishop Richard FitzRalph of Armagh preached the Proposicio ‘Nolite iudicare,’ known also as the Defensio Curatorum, before a full consistory of cardinals at Avignon. This was the opening round of a legal battle in the papal courts over the pastoral functions and privileges of the four orders of mendicant friars, Franciscans, Dominicans, Augustinians, and Carmelites. The case of the archbishop of Armagh versus the procurators general of the mendicant orders may with some justice be regarded as the climax of the long struggle between the friars and the secular clergy. The episode is unusually well-documented, but although much attention has been devoted to FitzRalph's sermons against the friars preached in London during the winter and spring of 1356–7 and to his dialogue on poverty and dominion De pauperie Salvatoris, little consideration has been given to the later developments which followed the transfer of the case to the papal curia. There the dispute became the subject of an inquiry heard by a tribunal of cardinals. Copies of the statements by both parties to the dispute survive in a number of manuscripts, English and continental, and it is possible to trace in some detail the progress of these curial proceedings. |
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| ISSN: | 2166-5508 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0362152900011338 |