Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface – The Black Death and Ebola: On the Value of Comparison
- Introducing The Medieval Globe
- Editor’s Introduction to Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World: Rethinking the Black Death
- Taking “Pandemic” Seriously: Making the Black Death Global
- The Black Death and Its Consequences for the Jewish Community in Tàrrega: Lessons from History and Archeology
- The Anthropology of Plague: Insights from Bioarcheological Analyses of Epidemic Cemeteries
- Plague Depopulation and Irrigation Decay in Medieval Egypt
- Plague Persistence in Western Europe: A Hypothesis
- New Science and Old Sources: Why the Ottoman Experience of Plague Matters
- Heterogeneous Immunological Landscapes and Medieval Plague: An Invitation to a New Dialogue between Historians and Immunologists
- The Black Death and the Future of the Plague
- Epilogue: A Hypothesis on the East Asian Beginnings of the Yersinia pestis Polytomy
- FEATURED SOURCE
- APPENDIX 1 Text of Omne Bonum, “De Clerico Debilitato Ministrante Sequitur Videre
- APPENDIX 2 Omne Bonum, “on Ministration by a Disabled Cleric”
- Bibliography
- Index
APPENDIX 2 - Omne Bonum, “on Ministration by a Disabled Cleric”
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 January 2021
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface – The Black Death and Ebola: On the Value of Comparison
- Introducing The Medieval Globe
- Editor’s Introduction to Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World: Rethinking the Black Death
- Taking “Pandemic” Seriously: Making the Black Death Global
- The Black Death and Its Consequences for the Jewish Community in Tàrrega: Lessons from History and Archeology
- The Anthropology of Plague: Insights from Bioarcheological Analyses of Epidemic Cemeteries
- Plague Depopulation and Irrigation Decay in Medieval Egypt
- Plague Persistence in Western Europe: A Hypothesis
- New Science and Old Sources: Why the Ottoman Experience of Plague Matters
- Heterogeneous Immunological Landscapes and Medieval Plague: An Invitation to a New Dialogue between Historians and Immunologists
- The Black Death and the Future of the Plague
- Epilogue: A Hypothesis on the East Asian Beginnings of the Yersinia pestis Polytomy
- FEATURED SOURCE
- APPENDIX 1 Text of Omne Bonum, “De Clerico Debilitato Ministrante Sequitur Videre
- APPENDIX 2 Omne Bonum, “on Ministration by a Disabled Cleric”
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION of this passage contains numerous references to the textbooks of late medieval jurisprudence which, in accordance with current scholarly convention, have been abbreviated as follows:
2 Comp. 0.00.00 Compilatio secunda, book 0, title 00, chapter 00, ed. Emil Friedberg, Quinque compilationes antiquae necnon Collectio canonum Lipsiensis (Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1882).
C.00 q.00 c.00 Decretum Gratiani, part II: Causa 00, quaestio 00, capitulum 00, ed. Emil Friedberg, Corpus iuris canonici 1 (Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1879).
D.00 c.00 Decretum Gratiani, part I: Distinctio 00, chapter 00, ed. Friedberg, Corpus iuris canonici 1 (Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1879).
Dig. 00.00.00 Digesta Iustiniani, book 00, title, 00, lex 00, ed. Paul Krüger and Theodor Mommsen, in: Corpus iuris civilis, 1: Institutiones, Digesta (Berlin: Weidmann, 1895).
VI 0.00.00 Liber sextus decretalium, book 0, title 00, chapter 00, ed. Friedberg, Corpus iuris canonici 2 (Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1881).
X 0.00.00 Decretales Gregorii IX (Liber extra), book 0, title 00, chapter 00, ed. Friedberg, Corpus iuris canonici 2 (Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1881).
For further information on the legal references and most of the juristic authors quoted (indirectly) in the subsequent section of Omne bonum, see Brundage 1995: 190–232.
On Ministration by a Disabled Cleric
What is the law regarding ministration by a cleric who is disabled by illness? First, it has to be known what an illness or disease is. This definition is found in Sabinus1: A disease is an unnatural condition of a body which weakens its use for the purpose that Nature assigned when it gave health to our bodies. This happens either to the whole body, as with a fever; or to one part as with blindness. Stuttering, however, is more of an impairment than a disease. A disease appears to be sonticus, that is harmful and causing a relapse, when it inflicts a person after she or he has recovered. For sontes means “harmful ones.”
[The next question is] whether on account of infirmity or disease a clerk should lose his benefice. It depends on whether he is a prelate. Then he is not removed even because of leprosy, but he is given a coadjutor to whom a suitable portion of the bishopric's revenue is assigned.
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- Pandemic Disease in the Medieval WorldRethinking the Black Death, pp. 319 - 323Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2015