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Jeanette Mumford - Papal Authority and the Limits of the Law in Tudor England - 9781107130364 - V9781107130364
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Papal Authority and the Limits of the Law in Tudor England

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Description for Papal Authority and the Limits of the Law in Tudor England hardcover. Editor(s): Clarke, Peter; Questier, Michael. Series: Camden Fifth Series. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; HBJD1; HBLH; LAZ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 145 x 14. Weight in Grams: 36.
This volume brings together contributions from two separate editors. The first is a collection of texts edited by Peter Clarke that evidence Cardinal Thomas Wolsey's legatine powers to grant dispensations and other papal graces and his exercise of these powers during the 1520s in Henry VIII's realm; these papal favours released Henry's subjects from the rules of canon law in certain instances. The second is a text edited by Michael Questier comprising glosses on and suggested readings of the Elizabethan statute law which imposed treason penalties on Catholic clergy who exercised their office in reconciling to Rome (i.e. absolving from ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
180
Condition
New
Series
Camden Fifth Series
Number of Pages
180
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107130364
SKU
V9781107130364
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Ref
99-28

About Jeanette Mumford
Peter Clarke specialises in medieval religious history, in particular the papacy and canon law. He is author of the monograph The Interdict in the Thirteenth Century: A Question of Collective Guilt (2007) and of numerous articles. His most recent key publication (co-edited with Patrick N. R. Zutshi) is Supplications from England and Wales in the Registers of the Apostolic Penitentiary, ... Read more

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