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8 - Weapons of the Not-So-Weak

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2022

Jonathan R. Lyon
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University of Chicago
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This chapter argues that monasteries and churches employed a variety of different strategies to try to counter advocates’ corrupt practices. One of the most popular was forging documents (especially royal privileges) in an effort to alter the terms of their relationships with their advocates. Many ecclesiastics also traveled to the German imperial court or the Papal See in Rome to seek outside support and to request that the ruler or pope remove advocates from their local positions. Requests to the papacy were backed by a growing body of canon law dedicated to the issue of church advocacy. Nevertheless, these strategies were frequently unsuccessful. By the early thirteenth century, it therefore became increasingly common for monasteries and churches to offer their advocates monetary payments in return for those advocates relinquishing all of their rights.

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Corruption, Protection and Justice in Medieval Europe
A Thousand-Year History
, pp. 174 - 196
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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  • Weapons of the Not-So-Weak
  • Jonathan R. Lyon, University of Chicago
  • Book: Corruption, Protection and Justice in Medieval Europe
  • Online publication: 12 October 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009075961.009
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  • Weapons of the Not-So-Weak
  • Jonathan R. Lyon, University of Chicago
  • Book: Corruption, Protection and Justice in Medieval Europe
  • Online publication: 12 October 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009075961.009
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  • Weapons of the Not-So-Weak
  • Jonathan R. Lyon, University of Chicago
  • Book: Corruption, Protection and Justice in Medieval Europe
  • Online publication: 12 October 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009075961.009
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