Legal Aspects of the Role of the Corrector of the Clergy in the Early Fifteenth-Century Diocese of Prague

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Authors	ONDRÁŠKOVÁ Veronika
Year of publication	2021
Type	Article in Proceedings
Conference	Herald of Legal History
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Law
Citation
web	Open access sborníku
Doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.51204/HLH_21106A
Keywords	Corrector of the Clergy; Diocese of Prague; Ecclesial judge; The Lands of the Bohemian Crown; Moral delicts; Breach of Celibate
Description	The paper focuses on the institution of the Corrector of the Clergy within the Diocese of Prague. This ecclesial administrative representative was a criminal judge who also oversaw the moral conduct of the clergy. The paper compares legal rules set by the Church for the clergy through synodical statutes and an actual enforcement of these duties by the Corrector. The paper analyses the judicial book covering the period from 1407 to 1410, examining the judge’s approach to moral delicts (breach of celibate, etc.), which constituted the majority of the cases. Emphasis is given on the prescribed punishments.