The article examines the papal rescripts significavit, namely general mandates through which the Church threatened with excommunication unknown people guilty of appropriating goods illicitly, if they had not returned them within a given period of time. By analyzing these sources, it will show how different social actors required these rescripts with the goal of claiming contested rights on properties or of certifying their possession through ritual actions, such as the proclamation of the significavit in the churches during services. In particular, the analysis will focus on a body of documentation regarding the Portuguese Empire between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. As a result, it will become clear how early modern Papacy carved its niche in the legal pluralism of the time and exerted longlasting jurisdictional powers on civil matters.

Chiesa e diritti di proprietà. I monitori "per beni sottratti" in età moderna

Marco Cavarzere
2024-01-01

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The article examines the papal rescripts significavit, namely general mandates through which the Church threatened with excommunication unknown people guilty of appropriating goods illicitly, if they had not returned them within a given period of time. By analyzing these sources, it will show how different social actors required these rescripts with the goal of claiming contested rights on properties or of certifying their possession through ritual actions, such as the proclamation of the significavit in the churches during services. In particular, the analysis will focus on a body of documentation regarding the Portuguese Empire between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. As a result, it will become clear how early modern Papacy carved its niche in the legal pluralism of the time and exerted longlasting jurisdictional powers on civil matters.
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