CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Razum, Igor |
|---|---|
| Title | TRADITION AND REFORM: THE IMPACT OF THE FOURTH LATERAN COUNCIL IN CENTRAL EUROPE |
| Summary | Conciliar legislation is an important part of the history of Latin Christendom. The church council as well as papal influence through personal connections with local bishops and through papal legates allowed for the formation of an ecclesiastical society in communication, transferring law codes and behavioural patterns throughout Europe. This study provides a comparative overview of the ecclesiastical situation in the first half of the thirteenth century in Hungary, Poland, and Bohemia as well as an overview of the practical issues and implications of papal influence through the reform of the clergy. This entails a focus on primarily ecclesiastical issues. The thesis seeks to show whether the Fourth Lateran Council, as an instrument of Church reform, had any influence on clerical education and discipline in Hungary, Poland, and Bohemia. Whether that was a practical or theoretical implementation of the decrees or merely a mention of the ideas is of primary concern, as the main question is whether the Fourth Lateran Council had any effect outside of Rome. The third part of the thesis is an analysis of the region as a “frontier of Christendom” in light of the decrees of the council. Matters such as the position of Jews, pagans, the “others” within the public sphere of the kingdoms as well as the more aggressive outward impact through the Crusades. These elements only represent a fraction of the Lateran reform, but provide an interesting perspective into the communication between Rome and the western parts of Latin Christendom and Central Europe in the first half of the thirteenth century. |
| Supervisor | Klaniczay, Gábor; Sághy, Marianne |
| Department | Medieval Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/razum_igor.pdf |
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