Marriage Advice for a Pope

Patrick Nold, D.Phil. (Oxford, 1999) is Assistant Professor of History at the State University of New York at Albany. He is the author of Pope John XXII and his Franciscan Cardinal: Bertrand de la Tour and the Apostolic Poverty Controversy (Oxford, 2003).

• PrefaceAbbreviations Part One Introduction1.The runaway spouse joins a religious order: an inexplicable exception2.The holdout husband takes up a holy order” an unresolved argument3.A triptych of consultation: marriage, poverty, magic4.Introducing the experts5.Conclusion6.Post-scriptum7.Manuscript description8.Ration editionisPart Two EditionI.Dicta fratris Vitalis de FurnoII.Dicta fratris Bertrandi de TurreIII.Dicta eiusdem domini CardinalisIV.Dicta domini Gaucelmi IohannisV.Dicta domini Bertrandi de Monte FaventinoVI.Dicta domini Petri TextorisVII.Dicta domini Arnardi RoiardiVIII.Idem EpiscopusIX.Dicta domini DurandiX.Idem EpiscopusXI.Dicta fratis GregoriiXII.Dicta fratis HerveiXIII.Dicta fratis Iohannis de AlestoXIV.Dicta fratis Iohannis de RedingXV.Dicta fratis Iohannis de NeapoliXVI.Dicta magistri Iohannis PanhoteXVII.Dicta fratis Roberti de AngliaXVIII.DictaXIX.Frater Iohannes de NeapoliBibliographyIndices

"..This revealing study of papal-decision making in the early fourteenth century makes a valuable contribution to the history of marriage law and papal decision-making in the early fourteenty century."James A. Brundage, Journal of Ecclesiastical History 61, 2010"...that this work a work of great scholarship and erudition....No serious student of development of canon law in the Western Church can afford to overlook the consultations that laid the way for this apolistic constitution. In providing the text in a highly readable and well analysed manner, the author has placed within the hands of a whole generation of students a wonderful insight into the formation of decretals at the time of John XXII, into the intellectual life of the papal curia at that time, and into the real life issues that led to the development of the contemporary canonical provisions regulating clerical celibacy, religious profession, and the dissolution of non-consummated marriages."Aidan McGrath, OFM, Archvim Franciscanum Historicum, 102 (2009), pp. 289-292