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- Title
THE ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS IN THE EARLY MODERN SOUTHERN NETHERLANDS: A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS.
- Authors
TANAKA, SUKEHIRO
- Abstract
The study of church courts in Europe is a research field from which historians harvest rich perspectives and possibilities. In Belgium and the Netherlands, thanks to the efforts of archivists, new catalogues of early modern church court documents have recently been published, and the path to further research is now opened up. This article intends to provide a general view of the courts' activities in the church province of Mechelen through quantitative analyses, using registers of sentences. The volume of the cases brought before them, the proportion of office and instance cases, and the profiles of parties are examined. The analysis confirms the general declining trend in the courts' activity, and this decline seems to have had more to do with the decline in office matters. It is also confirmed that the majority of the parties were women, which provides a good chance to exploit these records for studies in women's history.
- Subjects
HISTORY of ecclesiastical courts; ARCHIVES; ECCLESIASTICAL courts; CHURCH discipline; ECCLESIASTICAL law; WOMEN'S history
- Publication
Journal of Dutch Linguistics & Literature / Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal & Letterkunde, 2019, Vol 135, Issue 2, p53
- ISSN
0040-7550
- Publication type
Article