Michele Mancino

La giustizia penale ecclesiastica nell'Italia del Seicento: linee di tendenza

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  • The Council of Trentâ€
  • s legislation regarding ecclesiastical criminal justice led during subsequent decades to a significant increase in the activity of Episcopal criminal tribunals and the Apostolic nunciatures
  • while both were coordinated by central authorities in Rome. The developments of the seventeenth century are much less understood
  • however: a kind of «normalization» followed the dynamism of the late sixteenth century
  • and its characteristics cannot be easily deciphered. The most important developments appear to be the institution by Urban VIII in 1626 of a new Congregation dedicated to the defence of ecclesiastical immunity
  • and the moralizing tension produced by the «Innocenzian turn» of the 1670s and â€
  • 80s. At the same time
  • the corporative nature of ecclesiastical justice created conflicts with civil authorities that became increasingly frequent over the course of the century

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