The Council of Trent established the requirements that a marriage be celebrated by the parish priest and two or more witnesses be present at the marriage (1563), but neglected to specify who the parish priest was. The decrees provoked confusion among both laymen and churchmen. Traces thereof can be found in the hitherto essentially unexplored documentation of The Congregation of the Council. This institution was founded in 1564 specifically to resolve the questions that arose all over the catholic world by the application of the decrees promulgated at Trent. The related records are held in the Vatican Secret Archive. Through an examination of this documentation, complemented by files of the Holy Office the author analyzes how the new rules ...
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In a country with a deep-rooted Catholicism such as Malta, cases and stories about the 'misbehaviour...
The article analyses how the decrees of the Council of Trent regarding marriage were used by the Chu...
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After the council of Trent, theologians and canonists discussed whether the Cristians, who lived in ...
This is a study about the possibility of enter into marriage after the Council of Trent...
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Before the Council of Trent, in many places of Italy it was customary that children be presented at ...
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In this article, I explore the processes whereby, at the turn of the twelfth century, European arist...
The basis of Church authority over Christian matrimony is a fact of bringing up the marriage entente...
The question of concubinage was very often mentioned in the sources and works of the pre-Code law o...
The Decrees of the Council of Trent expanded episcopal authority to ensure bishops would have suffic...
In a country with a deep-rooted Catholicism such as Malta, cases and stories about the 'misbehaviour...
The article analyses how the decrees of the Council of Trent regarding marriage were used by the Chu...
Among the contributions of the medieval church to western culture was the idea that marriage was one...
After the council of Trent, theologians and canonists discussed whether the Cristians, who lived in ...
This is a study about the possibility of enter into marriage after the Council of Trent...
Priests occupied a contested space during the post-Tridentine era. Reforming bishops like Gregorio B...
This article investigates the petitions sent to the Papal Penitentiary for receiving a declaration t...
A causa de que el Derecho canónico ha sido entendido a menudo como una colección homogénea de normas...
This article examines the reception and application of arguments developed during the Donatist contr...
Before the Council of Trent, in many places of Italy it was customary that children be presented at ...
This paper analyses marriage as a means by which strangers were accepted within the family. The prim...
In this article, I explore the processes whereby, at the turn of the twelfth century, European arist...
The basis of Church authority over Christian matrimony is a fact of bringing up the marriage entente...
The question of concubinage was very often mentioned in the sources and works of the pre-Code law o...
The Decrees of the Council of Trent expanded episcopal authority to ensure bishops would have suffic...
In a country with a deep-rooted Catholicism such as Malta, cases and stories about the 'misbehaviour...