At the Edge of Reformation springs from Peter Linehan's continuing interest in the history of Spain and Portugal, on this occasion in the first half of the fourteenth century between the recovery of each kingdom from widespread anarchy and civil war and the onset of the Black Death. Focussing on ecclesiastical aspects of the period in that region (Galicia in particular) and secular attitudes to the privatisation of the church, it raises inter alios the question why developments there did not lead to a permanent sundering of the relationship with Rome (or Avignon) two centuries ahead of that outcome elsewhere in the West.
In addressing such issues, as well as of neglected archival material in Spanish and Portuguese archives, Linehan makes use of the also unpublished so-called 'secret' registers of the popes of the period. The issues this volume raises ought to be of interest not only to students of Spanish and Portuguese society but also to those interested in the developing relationship further afield of the components of the eternal quadrilateral (pope, king, episcopate, and secular nobility) in late medieval Europe as well as of the activity in that period of the secular-minded sapientes. In this context, attention is given to the hitherto neglected attempt of Afonso IV of Portugal to appropriate the privileges of the primatial church of his kingdom and to the glorification of his Castilian son-in-law as God's vice-gerent in his.
Author(s): Peter Linehan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 272
City: Oxford
Cover
At the Edge of Reformation: Iberia before the Black Death
Copyright
Dedication
Preface
Contents
List of Abbreviations
1: Early Fourteenth-Century Iberia: Anarchy in Two Kingdoms
PORTUGAL AND THE PAPACY SINCE 1179
THE SECULAR ETHIC: LEGISTS AND THEIR ROLE IN GOVERNMENT
‘MOLINISM’
THE PORTUGUESE CHURCH: SECULAR SYMPTOMS
AFONSO IV AND ALFONSO XI: FATHER-IN-LAW AND SON-IN-LAW
THE IBERIAN CHURCH 1318–1325
VALLADOLID: STUDIUM AND CORTES
2: Portuguese Lineages and the Privatization of the Portuguese Church
THE PENINSULAR CHURCH ACCORDING TO ÁLVARO PAIS
‘A LAYMAN WITH HIS OWN JUDGE’
ASPECTS OF THE PENINSULAR CHURCH
MORTMAIN IN PORTUGAL
THE NOBILITY AND THE MONASTERIES
A PORTUGUESE STUDIUM: MIGUEL VIVAS
3: Nobility and Naturaleza
1329: THE ASSEMBLY OF VINCENNES AND THE CORTES OF MADRID
ROYAL MARRIAGES
INTIMATIONS OF REFORMATION
PARIS AND PORTUGAL
1332
4: 1332 Continued
THE KING’S TWO FAMILIES
THE WIDER CONTEXT
A PENINSULAR FOCUS
AFONSO IV AND THE PORTUGUESE CHURCH
THE CASTILIAN CARDINAL
SECULAR CONFRONTATION
5: The Archbishop’s Chapel
PORTUGUESE CHURCH AND STATE
THE WAR OF WORDS
CENTRE AND PERIPHERY
6: After Salado
PEDRO DE CASIS AT AVIGNON
THE QUESTION OF THE CANARIES
ALGECIRAS: THE APOTHEOSIS OF ALFONSO XI
‘Excepto rege Yspano’
THE BRAGA CHAPEL AGAIN
THE CASE OF GUILLELMUS DE RIVOFORCATO
7: Alfonso XI: ‘A King Entire’
AFONSO IV: AVIGNON WARNED
A GLIMPSE OF THE GALICIAN CHURCH
ÁLVARO PAIS AGAIN
8: By Way of Conclusion
APPENDIX I: Braga, post-August 1341. Draft appeal of Archbishop Gonçalo Pereira to Avignon in defence of the privileges of the church of Braga
APPENDIX II: Braga, 30 Sept. 1341. Schedule of protest of Archbishop Gonçalo Pereira against actions of king’s men read in the cloister of the cathedral in the presence of Affonso Dominguez, royal corregidor; Johan Perez and Johan Martinez tabelliães públicos of Braga
APPENDIX III: Avignon, 30 Sept. 1341 19 July 1342. Allegationes of Archbishop Gonçalo Pereira regarding liberty of church of Braga and judgment of five Avignon judges
APPENDIX IV: Ante 30 Nov. 1338. Allegationes pro camera contra allegationes et atestationes heredum archidiaconi toletani
APPENDIX V: Avignon, 11 April 1344. Collatio of Bishop Bernat of Huesca after the capture of Algeciras. Cambridge, Pembroke College MS 98
Sources and Bibliography
UNPUBLISHED THESES
Index
