Abstract:

This article examines the local effects of papal centralisation of ecclesiastical administration in the first half of the fourteenth century. It traces as a case study the impact on English monastic communities of papal privileges and exemptions, papal attempts to regulate religious observance, the expansion of the papal judicial system, and the growth of papal appointments of heads of houses. It concludes that the reality differed from the high theory of papalist claims to immediate and universal jurisdiction. Papal power ultimately depended on the consent of local actors and an increasingly assertive Crown, and burgeoning administrative activity at the papal curia did not translate into increased power and influence.

摘要：

本文考察了十四世纪上半叶教皇集中管理教会管理的地方影响。它作为案例研究追溯了教皇特权和豁免对英国修道院社区的影响、教皇规范宗教仪式的尝试、教皇司法系统的扩张以及教皇任命院长的增加。其结论是，现实与教皇主张立即和普遍管辖权的崇高理论不同。教皇的权力最终取决于当地行为者的同意和日益自信的国王，而教皇法庭迅速发展的行政活动并没有转化为权力和影响力的增加。