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The kidnapped bishop : coerced ordinations in the late medieval Bohemian province / Thomas Fudge.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2023]Description: xxiii, 251 pagine ; 24 cmContent type:
  • testo (txt)
Media type:
  • senza mediazione (n)
Carrier type:
  • volume (nc)
ISBN:
  • 9781666926637
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 284/.3 23/eng/20230428
Other classification:
  • BX 4915.3.F84 2023
Contents:
Kidnapping and coercing a bishop -- Medieval ordination and its challenges -- Are forced consecrations legitimate? -- An irresolvable paradox? -- Coercion and ordination in medieval legal glosses : The Witness of Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College MS 676/283, Glosses to D. 73 (74), fol. 45r-v.
Summary: "This book examines the abduction of a medieval Bohemian bishop by heretics and the forced consecration of over one hundred candidates to holy orders. The author clarifies the significance of the kidnapped bishop and his coerced acts of consecration".

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Kidnapping and coercing a bishop -- Medieval ordination and its challenges -- Are forced consecrations legitimate? -- An irresolvable paradox? -- Coercion and ordination in medieval legal glosses : The Witness of Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College MS 676/283, Glosses to D. 73 (74), fol. 45r-v.

"This book examines the abduction of a medieval Bohemian bishop by heretics and the forced consecration of over one hundred candidates to holy orders. The author clarifies the significance of the kidnapped bishop and his coerced acts of consecration".