HIB0385 The Court of Rome’s fiscalism and centralism in the Late Middle Ages

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
0/2. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Petr Elbel, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jiří Malíř, CSc.
Department of History – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Hana Ambrožová
Timetable
each even Friday 12:30–15:45 zrusena A22 stara
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/25
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Course objectives
This course looks at papal centralism and fiscalism in the 14th and 15th centuries, the milestones in their development and their impact on the pre-Hussite, Hussite and post-Hussite Czech lands. Specific styles of documents will be examined which were produced by papal centralism, and attention will be placed on both the possibilities and limits in interpretation that arise from them. Students will prepare specific texts which will then be discussed in the seminars. At the end of the course one of the more complicated cases will be reconstructed – the dispute over the beneficium before the Court of Rome.
Syllabus
  • 1) The roots of the Court of Rome’s centralism and fiscalism in the reform of the papacy from the 11th to the 13th centuries, the expansion of the Court of Rome’s centralism and fiscalism during the time of the Avignon papacy, the concept of the Court of Rome’s control of benefices.
  • 2) The impact of Avignon centralism and fiscalism on the Czech lands.
  • 3) Typology of papal expectancy and commission.
  • 4) The papal office and the process of drawing up commission documents.
  • 5) The Roman rota. Legal arguments before the Court of Rome, surrogacy and commission si neutri.
  • 6) The Apostles’ chamber. Annates and servicia, the papal tithes.
  • 7) The height of the Court of Rome’s centralism and fiscalism at the time of the Great Western Schism, reform councils and concordats, the gradual limiting of the Court of Rome’s centralism and fiscalism.
  • 8) Papal penitentiary. Absolution and dispensations.
  • 9-10) Jointly worked model on the intervention of the Court of Rome in the provision of benefices in the Czech lands – written test with sources.
Literature
  • Zdeňka HLEDÍKOVÁ, Úpadek nebo růst? K situaci církve v Čechách ve 14. století, in: Traditio et cultus, Praha 1993, s. 51–62.
  • Zdeňka HLEDÍKOVÁ, Písemnosti církevní správy pražské (arci)diecéze v pozdním středověku, Acta Universitatis Carolinae - Philosophica et historica 1999, 2, Z pomocných věd historických XV, s. 27–38.
  • Blanka ZILYNSKÁ, Utrakvistická církevní správa a možnosti jejího studia, Acta Universitatis Carolinae - Philosophica et historica 1999, 2, Z pomocných věd historických XV, s. 39–53.
  • Pavel KRAFL (ed.), Sacri canones servandi sunt. Ius canonicum et status ecclesiae saeculis XIII-XV. Kolektivní monografie, Praha 2008.
  • Zdeňka HLEDÍKOVÁ, Die Visitationen des weltlichen Klerus im vorhussitischen Böhmen, Mediaevaia Bohemica 1/2, 1969, s. 249–274.
  • ŠMAHEL, František. Husitská revoluce. Vyd. 2., ve vydavatelství K. Praha: Univerzita Karlova, 1996, 550 s. ISBN 8071840726. info
  • ŠMAHEL, František. Husitská revoluce. Vyd. 2., ve vydav. Karolinum. Praha: Karolinum, 1996, 364 s. ISBN 8071840726. info
  • ŠMAHEL, František. Husitská revoluce. 2. vyd., ve vyd. Karolinum 1. Praha: Karolinum, 1996, 364 s. ISBN 8071840726. info
  • ŠMAHEL, František. Husitská revoluce. Vyd. 2., ve vyd. Karolinum 1. Praha: Karolinum, 1995, 498 s. ISBN 8071840726. info
  • JANÁK, Jan and Zdeňka HLEDÍKOVÁ. Dějiny správy v českých zemích do roku 1945. 1. vydání. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1989, 519 stran. ISBN 8004211895. URL info
Assessment methods
Reading and analysis of source material – written test in the last two lessons which will be part of joint research.
Student’s essay on the possible uses of analysing primary sources, class discussions. Written test – the interpretation of two unknown excerpts from church sources.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
General note: Znalost latiny podmínkou!.
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