This is a text produced by the Council of Douzy in June 874. No manuscripts of the acta survive, only two fragments printed in 1629 by Jacques Sirmond. The first is a letter to the bishops...
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TRANSLATION BY RACHEL STONE, WITH ASSISTANCE FROM CHARLES WEST This short letter by Hincmar of Rheims has not been dated, although Gerhard Schmitz argued that it was written around the same t...
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Excerpts from sacred canons and the deeds of the holy fathers about the religious life of nuns (cultus sanctimoniae) and about the constancy of declaring the truth From the decrees of Pope ...
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A draft translation of De coercendo et exstirpando raptu viduarum, puellarum ac sanctimonialium, Patrologia Latina 125, col. 1017-1036 by Rachel Stone, with the assistance of Charles West This...
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Draft translation by Charles West (comments and suggestions welcome) Following the Treaty of Verdun in 843 which divided the Carolingian empire into separate kingdoms, from time to time the Ca...
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Relatively few of Hincmar’s works have yet been translated into English. This post lists the ones that we are currently aware of: any suggestions for additions will be gratefully received Ad ...
http://hincmar.blogspot.com/2015/08/english-translations-of-hincmars-works.html
In the late summer of 858, King Louis ‘the German’ of East Francia invaded the kingdom of his younger brother Charles ‘the Bald’ of West Francia, in a bid to reverse the terms of the Tre...
http://hincmar.blogspot.com/2018/02/the-quierzy-letter-of-858.html
In October 863, Pope Nicholas deposed Archbishops Gunthar of Cologne and Theutgaud of Trier, and wrote to all the Lotharingian bishops demanding they present their excuses. This is the letter tha...
http://hincmar.blogspot.com/2016/07/bishop-adventius-writes-to-pope.html
This is the first of five episcopal statutes issued by Archbishop Hincmar over his long career. The second, not translated here, instructed archdeacons in how they should assess compliance with t...
http://hincmar.blogspot.com/2016/03/hincmar-of-rheims-first-episcopal.html
The judgment of Courtisols, 13 May 847 Based on the edition in J-P. Devroey, "Libres et non-libres sur les terres de Saint-Remi de Reims: La notice judiciare de Courtisols (13 Mai 847) et le ...
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Hincmar of Rheims: De uxore Bosonis Edition: MGH Epistolae Karolini Aevi VIII, pp. 81-87, no. 135 Transmission: Paris BnF. lat 2866, fols.120-124v. Dating: Autumn 860 Trans. by Rachel St...
The Council of Aachen 862 (extracts) Translated from MGH Concilia IV, pp. 71-78 . For a full translation, see Charles West, The Fall of a Carolingian Kingdom (University of Toronto Press, fort...
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We're making good progress on our translation of De divortio for Manchester University Press. We'll soon be taking the draft translation down, but intend to replace it with more untranslated mat...
For also St Syricus took care to place something about the blessing of betrothed women in his decretals. About whom, the holy canons decree what is noted, and we thence have said some things, an...
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We have also reckoned a necessary addition, so that by the statements of the saints we may recognise that a marriage can be dissolved, in which lying together does not follow for certain reasons...
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These things blessed Augustine has discussed very sufficiently in the book about the good of marriage and about marriage and concupiscence and in other of his books. But also in the same place a...
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If these other things which we have placed in no way suffice the studious or curious, we attend to adding also yet other things. For the blessed Augustine says in the book about marriage and con...
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And since Church rules offer also a statement of definition about these who infringe the faith of betrothal, it seems to us, not expressing according to authority but giving council, if perhaps ...
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Now let us apply these things, which the holy doctors say about marriage, to the marriage of Stephen, not having the love of offspring, but the necessity of avoiding exile or death; not having f...
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Both the old and new law teach how marriage ought to be entered, the Lord ordering through Moses, and the Gospel demonstrating: 'When Mary, the mother of Jesus was betrothed to Joseph, before th...
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But with him heard, the synod ordered him to withdraw. And once individuals had spoken according to how it seemed to them, it was decreed that you co-provincial archbishops with your fellow bish...
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Hincmar, bishop by name, not merit of Rheims and slave to the people of God, to the reverent Archbishop of Bourges and very dear brother Rodulf and to the amiable brother and honourable Archbish...
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. how or for what causes marriages can be separated once they have been entered into, and without which causes they must not be separated. And after a separation, whether the man or woman, which...
And they say that it was on account of a secret confession made by this woman that her champion escaped unburned from the ordeal .
And since some wise men say these things, as we said, do bishops and other Christians have any danger who take communion with this adulterer, and if there is a danger, how will they be freed bef...
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