canon law – RCS

Cardinal Palazzo Altieri’s project on legalization of Catholicism in Sweden: document from the archive of the St. Petersburg Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Pavel Valentinovich Krylov PhD in History, scientific researcher, Saint Petersburg Institute of History of Russian Academy of Sciences (Petrozavodskaya str., bld. 7, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 197110)
pavel_kryloff@mail.ru

Krylov P. V. Cardinal Palazzo Altieri’s project on legalization of Catholicism in Sweden: document from the archive of the St. Petersburg Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Religiya. Tserkov’. Obshchestvo. Issledovaniya i publikatsii po teologii i religii [Religion. Church. Society: Research and publications in the field of theology and religious studies], Saint-Petersburg, 2024, vol. 13, pp. 400–417.

doi: 10.24412/2308-0698-2024-13-400-417

Language: Russian

The article presents for publication a document from the correspond ence of the Apostolic Nunciature in Spain, which is a project of Paluzzo Alt ieri, Cardinal Prefect of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, aimed at achieving the right of Catholics to freedom of confession in Sweden in the 1670s, when it was a country of evangelical Lutheran orthodoxy. The text appeared as a response to a report by Niccolo Bargellini, the former papal nuncio to France, who credited himself with achieving freedom for the Catholic religion in Denmark. As arguments for achieving the goal, Nuncio Marescotti was recommended to use motives: 1. the Franco-Habsburg contradictions, 2. the benefits of religious freedom for the development of navigation and trade, 3. the favor of some German princes to Catholicism. At the same time, the instructions contain a lot of unreliable information, reflecting not so much the real state of affairs in the inter national church policy of the Baroque era, as the unsupported intentions of the Holy See.

Key words: canon law, holy see, proselytism, Sweden, international relations, Roman Catholic Church

URL: https://rcs-almanac.ru/krylov-2024-en/

Papal nunciature in France and struggle for freedom of Catholic faith in Denmark: document from the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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Pavel Valentinovich Krylov phd in history, scientific researcher, Saint Petersburg Institute of History of Russian Academy of Sciences (Petrozavodskaya str., bld. 7, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 197110)
pavel_kryloff@mail.ru

Krylov P. V. Papal nunciature in France and struggle for freedom of Catholic faith in Denmark: document from the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Religiya. Tserkov’. Obshchestvo. Issledovaniya i publikatsii po teologii i religii [Religion. Church. Society: Research and publications in the field of theology and religious studies], Saint-Petersburg, 2023, vol. 12, pp. 366–374.

doi: 10.24412/2308-0698-2023-12-366-374

Language: Russian

The published document, issued from the correspondence of the Apostolic nunciature in Spain, is devoted to the observance of the rights of Catholics to confess freely their faith in Denmark in the 1670s, when it was the country of Evangelical Lutheran Orthodoxy. The author of the document, Niccolo Bargellini, was a former papal nuncio to France and took credits for the fact that a house for conducting Roman Catholic services and a plot of land for a cemetery had been transferred to the French Embassy in Copenhagen in favor of the French embassy. In fact, the chapel at the embassy was ment, and the inflating of his own merits was a consequence of the author’s failure to bring to the French court a set of measures to combat French Jansenism, on which the Roman court of Pope insisted.

Key words: canon law, holy see, proselytism, embassy chapel

URL: //rcs-almanac.ru/en/en-krylov-2023/

«If Pope is a Frenchman, then an Englishman is Christ»: the English context of the struggle for sovereignty with the Avinion Papacy

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Tatiana Alekseevna Leonova, PhD in History, assistant professor, Bashkir State Pedagogical University n.a. M. Akmullah (ulitsa Oktyabr’skoy Revolyutsii, 3Ak1, Ufa, the Republic of Bashkortostan, 450000)

leonotan@mail.ru

Leonova T. A. «If Pope is a Frenchman, then an Englishman is Christ»: the English context of the struggle for sovereignty with the Avinion Papacy, Religiya. Tserkov’. Obshchestvo. Issledovaniya i publikatsii po teologii i religii [Religion. Church. Society: Research and publications in the field of theology and religious studies], Saint-Petersburg, 2016, vol. 5, pp. 116–135.

doi: 10.24411/2308-0698-2016-00007

Language: Russian

The article is based on the idea of the Russian medievalist Y. P. Malinin that France since the Philip IV the Fair’s rule was ahead of Western European countries, including England, in the development of political ideas. The French concept of «sovereignty» in the era of the Avignon captivity gave the opportunity for the Crown to monitor the actions of the papal curia. The English monarchy was open to the intervention of their supreme lord. Within England the context of formation of the sovereignty of state power related to the opposition of the clergy having refused to participate in the activities of the Parliament. On the basis of Church and state documents the decision of the English Crown is studied. Entering not into open conflict with the Pope the Crown took the following steps. In the financial sector it limited the size of Pope’s concessions and extortion as well as action of Papal tax collectors. In the law spere the abolition of vassalage to the Holy See and publication and use of a series of statutes «Provisores» and «Praemunire» took place. Within the country the Church fixed legal privileges, maintaining ecclesiastical courts and expanding their competence. Canonical and secular law documents were issued, and laymen had a right to choose between the Church and the Royal courts of England. That was a significant obstacle for formation of the internal sovereignty of the Crown.

Key words: Avignon captivity, Crown, Pope, sovereignty, statutes, provisions, canon law, the «king’s bench» court

URL: //rcs-almanac.ru/leonova-t-a-2016-en/