How to Cite

Daniels, Tobias: Einleitung, in Esch, Arnold and Schmugge, Ludwig: Menschen in ihrer Gegenwart: Die Fülle spätmittelalterlichen Lebens im Spiegel der Apostolischen Pönitentiarie, Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing, 2024 (Online-Schriften des DHI Rom. Neue Reihe: Pubblicazioni online del DHI Roma. Nuova serie, Volume 10), p. 3–18. https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.1345.c18667

License (Chapter)

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Identifiers (Book)

https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.1345
ISBN 978-3-96822-261-5 (Hardcover)
ISBN 978-3-96822-262-2 (PDF)

Published

04/04/2024

Downloads

Download chapter (PDF/158KB)
Statistic

Authors

Tobias Daniels

Einleitung

This volume of selected essays by Ludwig Schmugge and Arnold Esch, the fruit of over thirty years of research, deals with sources from the archives of the Apostolic Penitentiary, the Catholic Church’s supreme tribunal of penitence and mercy – more precisely, with the registers that this ‚dicastery‘ kept on petitions from all regions of Latin Christendom, which were positively decided upon by it. What are these sources and why should they be studied? How were they discovered and made accessible? How did Ludwig Schmugge and Arnold Esch analyse them? What research currently exists on them, and what should be done in the future? The following remarks are intended to provide some suggestions and answers to these questions.