Canon law and cloistered women
Subtitle: Periculoso and its commentators, 1298-1545
By: Elizabeth Makowski.
Contributors: Catholic Church.
Series: Studies in medieval and early modern canon law ;; v. 5
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng; lat
Number of pages: 149
Subjects: Convents (Canon law) -- History.; Monasticism and religious orders for women (Canon law) -- History.; Nuns -- History.; Monasticism and religious orders for women -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Other titles: Periculoso and its commentators, 1298-1545
Description: Provides the most thorough examination to date of the landmark decree by Pope Boniface VIII. The author surveys precedents for "Periculoso" as well as some of the problems Boniface VIII hope to solve with his legislation. She further analyzes the commentary on "Periculoso", much of it written by practicing lawyers, which unveils late medieval attitudes toward nuns and their male counterparts. Finally, she oncludes with a discussion of the attempts to enfoce.
Notes: Text of Periculoso in Latin and English.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-146) and index.
"Referred to as Periculoso, the first word of the Latin text, this decree was the first papal legislation to require strict enclosure of nuns of every order throughout the Latin Church. [Pope] Boniface included this decree as title 16 in the third book of his Liber Sextus"--P. 1.