Authenticating marriage: the decree Tametsi in a comparative global perspective
The most common form of global history traces the growing power of the West and tries to explain it. There is a parallel story of the expansion of Christianity, in which the influence of the Council of Trent on the world as a whole deserves a more prominent place than it has received. But there is an...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Vittorio Klostermann GmbH
2019
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Rechtsgeschichte
Year: 2019, Volume: 27, Pages: 71-89 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Tametsi
/ Council
/ Tridentinum (1545-1563 : Trient)
/ Secret
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IxTheo Classification: | SA Church law; state-church law SB Catholic Church law |
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Summary: | The most common form of global history traces the growing power of the West and tries to explain it. There is a parallel story of the expansion of Christianity, in which the influence of the Council of Trent on the world as a whole deserves a more prominent place than it has received. But there is another kind of global history: the comparative sort. This article looks at the Council of Trent’s solution to the problem of clandestine marriages in a comparative perspective, showing how the prob- lems it faced are paralleled in three other societies, but also that a unique mechanism for dealing with them was created, the Congregatio Concilii. |
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ISSN: | 2195-9617 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Rechtsgeschichte
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.12946/rg27/071-089 |