Fungovanie cirkevného súdnictva v stredovekom Uhorsku. Ostrihomský tribunál v rokoch 1399 – 1428
The Church Judiciary’s Functioning in Medieval Hungary. The Esztergom Tribunal in 1399-1428

Summary/Abstract: The knowledge of the church judiciary’s functioning in the medieval Kingdom of Hungary shows that previous historical publications contain only general, summarizing opinion when analyzing its issues. Therefore, the authors of the paper decided to examine the activities of episcopal courts in Hungary by means of a new, as yet untried method of a probe: by evaluation of activities of a single judicial vicar. This person is Matteo di Vicedomini of Piacenza (+1428) who for more than three decades lived in Hungary and in the first third of the 15th century served as a judicial vicar of the archbishop of Esztergom (in 1399-1403, 1411-1423, 1425-1428). Since he served at the highest church court of the country for a long time we can assume that he dealt with various types of cases. In this paper the authors deal with what they found in the sources. Thus, they also focus on those aspects which in the prior examinations – just due to the general character of scholarly literature – remained in the background or were absent.

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