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Legal Aspects of the Role of the Corrector of the Clergy in the Early Fifteenth-Century Diocese of Prague

Authors

ONDRÁŠKOVÁ Veronika

Year of publication 2021
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Herald of Legal History
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Law

Citation
Web Open access sborníku
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.51204/HLH_21106A
Keywords Corrector of the Clergy; Diocese of Prague; Ecclesial judge; The Lands of the Bohemian Crown; Moral delicts; Breach of Celibate
Description The paper focuses on the institution of the Corrector of the Clergy within the Diocese of Prague. This ecclesial administrative representative was a criminal judge who also oversaw the moral conduct of the clergy. The paper compares legal rules set by the Church for the clergy through synodical statutes and an actual enforcement of these duties by the Corrector. The paper analyses the judicial book covering the period from 1407 to 1410, examining the judge’s approach to moral delicts (breach of celibate, etc.), which constituted the majority of the cases. Emphasis is given on the prescribed punishments.

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