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- Title
Fiat A: the Earliest Known Roll of Petitions Signed by the Pope (1307).
- Authors
Linehan, P. A.; Zutshi, P. N. R.
- Abstract
The article discusses the system of petitioning the pope, which was an essential element of papal government during the Middle Ages. It is noted that the majority of papal letters during that period were issued not on the initiative of the pope or his government but in response to petitions, or supplications, addressed to him from all over Latin Christendom. Petitions were submitted either in groups or individually. In case of group petition, there might be a sufficient number of petitions to form a roll, hence such group of petitions were called rotuli.
- Subjects
PETITIONS; PAPAL letters; PAPAL documents; PUBLIC records; PAPACY; POPES; MIDDLE Ages
- Publication
English Historical Review, 2007, Vol 122, Issue 498, p998
- ISSN
0013-8266
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/ehr/cem215