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“The Lord does not wish the death of a sinner”: Investigating Selected Ordinary Glosses to Pope Gregory IX's Decretales (1234) on Heretics

Church history, 2023-03, Vol.92 (1), p.22-41 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of American Society of Church History ;ISSN: 0009-6407 ;EISSN: 1755-2613 ;DOI: 10.1017/S0009640723000641

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  • Title:
    “The Lord does not wish the death of a sinner”: Investigating Selected Ordinary Glosses to Pope Gregory IX's Decretales (1234) on Heretics
  • Author: Liu, Yanchen
  • Subjects: 12th century ; 13th century ; Attorneys ; Bible ; Canon law ; Death & dying ; Gregory IX (Pope) (1145?-1241) ; Heresy ; Historical text analysis ; Jurisprudence ; Middle Ages ; Papal documents ; Popes ; Religion ; Religious history ; Theology
  • Is Part Of: Church history, 2023-03, Vol.92 (1), p.22-41
  • Description: This article provides a new perspective on the discussion of heresy from one of the most influential canonical-jurisprudential commentaries of the Middle Ages: Bernard of Parma's Glossa ordinaria to Pope Gregory IX's Decretales (commonly known as the Liber extra). Based on an analysis of Bernard's legal glosses, with special emphasis on his citation of Roman and canon law traditions, I argue that the often-overlooked Glossa ordinaria provides scholars a unique window into medieval conceptions of heresy, jurisprudence, and ecclesiastical-legal practice. This study demonstrates that this important mid-thirteenth-century legal-educational text not only reoriented the canonical definition of heretics toward an emphasis on sects rather than individuals, but, differing from the contemporary, often severe papal and conciliar rulings against heretics, also stressed the centrality of mercy and temperance in how heretics should be treated by the ecclesiastical court. The Glossa ordinaria, as this article discusses, might have served as an intellectual force that could have counter-balanced the overzealousness of emerging inquisitors in an age of intensifying repression of heretics.
  • Publisher: New York, USA: Cambridge University Press
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0009-6407
    EISSN: 1755-2613
    DOI: 10.1017/S0009640723000641
  • Source: ProQuest Central
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