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The interdict was an important and frequent event in medieval society. It was an ecclesiastical sanction which had the effect of closing churches and suspending religious services. Often imposed on an entire community because its leaders had violated the rights and laws of the Church, popes exploited it as a political weapon in their conflicts with secular rulers during the thirteenth century. In this book, Peter Clarke examines this significant but neglected subject, presenting a wealth of new evidence drawn from manuscripts and archival sources. He begins by exploring the basic legal and moral problem raised by the interdict: how could a sanction that punished many for the sins of the few ...
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IMPORTANT as was for centuries the part played by the interdict in the history of both church and state, no book has hitherto been devoted to it. Late in the sixteenth century the French jurist Pierre Pithou attempted a survey of its history in his essay De l'ongine et du progres des Interdicts ecclesiastiques; but this, though able, is only a sketch. In 1869 the German canonist Franz Kober published in three successive issues of the Archiv fur katholisches Kirchenrecht a careful study entitled "Das Interdict." While rich in information regarding the history and use of the interdict, this deals mainly with its place in ecclesiastical law. In 1897 a young American scholar, Arthur C. Howland, ...
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The Catholic Church extended its authority over many areas of life in the Later Middle Ages, and this increasingly led it into political conflicts with kings and other rulers. In this book, Peter Clarke focuses on one of the Church's chief weapons in these struggles - the interdict. A sanction that could be imposed on an entire kingdom, an interdict was similar to a strike in which clergy closed churches and refused to perform most religious ministrations. It was therefore a major event in medieval society, and this book is the first in-depth treatment of this phenomenon, exploring the issues of collective guilt and responsibility that are still important today.