As «Leis Jacobinas». Estudo e transcrição

Margarida Garcez Ventura

doi:10.4000/medievalista.636

The «Jacobin Laws». Study and transcription

Authors

Margarida Garcez Ventura Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa / Academia Portuguesa da História, Lisboa, Portugal

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4000/medievalista.636

Keywords:

Secular power, Church-State Relations, Ecclesiastical freedoms, roman law, Bartolo of Sassoferrato

Abstract

As in another realms of Christianity, also the portuguese king, using both the theological reasons as the roman law, considered his right and duty to exercise jurisdiction over many cases that the clergy had as exclusively theirs. Here is a brief comment on the so called “Leis Jacobinas” (Nov. 1418-Dec. 1419), simultaneously trigger and witness of the controversy between the Church and the royal power in the late Middle Age. We also publish a new reading on one of the transcriptions of these laws.