The construction of ecclesiastical jurisdictions: tithes and territories in medieval canon law (12th-13th centuries)

• Grant number: 17/20683-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: April 01, 2018
• End date: February 04, 2021
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - Ancient and Medieval History
• Principal Investigator: Neri de Barros Almeida
• Grantee: Carolina Gual da Silva
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Between 1140 and 1260, at the peak of the creative effervescence of medieval juridical thinking, the concept of jurisdiction (iurisdictio), one of the main pillars of medieval juridical theory, had yet to receive a clear definition. This concept was, nonetheless under construction and one of its most extraordinary artifices was the discourse regarding tithes, particularly due to their clear incidence over the problem of the definition of territories. Sources from the period indicate that the control and the collection of tithes had a significant religious, political, and social roles, especially regarding the political, spatial and conceptual organization of parishes, dioceses, and the papacy itself. Our goal is to understand the constitution of ecclesiastical jurisdictions by analyzing the discourse on tithes and their impacts on the process of territoriliazation of the Church in the Western Latin world between the 12th and 13th centuries, since the reflections on authority and ecclesiastical power involved a relational approach through the definition of the jurisdictional limits of priests, bishops, and the pope. In order to achieve this goal our main source will be the Summa Aurea (ca. 1253), written by the cardinal-bishop of Ostie, Henry of Suse (1200-1271), also known as Hostiensis. We will also make use of other canonists with whom Hostiensis established a fruitful dialogue, such as Gratian, Raymond of Penafort, and Geoffrey of Trani, in order to analyze the construction of jurisdictions from the perspective of a conceptual history in a context of juridical plurality.

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

CAROLINA GUAL SILVA. A CONSTRUÇÃO DA AUCTORITAS NO DECRETUM DE GRACIANO: O PAPEL DA TRADIÇÃO E DO AUCTOR EM UM TEXTO JURÍDICO DO SÉCULO XII. Revista de História, n. 181, 2022-02-25. (17/20683-6)

SILVA, CAROLINA GUAL. HE CONSTRUCTION OF AUCTORITAS IN GRATIAN'S DECRETUM: THE ROLE OF TRADITION AND THE AUCTOR IN A 12TH CENTURY LEGAL TEX. Revista de História, n. 181, 2022. (17/20683-6)