Chapter 3 The wars of religion (Религиозные войны)

Concept: ECCLESIASTICAL COURT

1. Cambridge dictionary

Ecclesiastical - relating to the Christian Church.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english-russian/ecclesiastical

2. Cambridge dictionary

Court is the place where a judge decides whether someone is guilty of a crime.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english-russian/court_1?q=+court

3. Encyclopedia Britannica

Ecclesiastical court, tribunal set up by religious authorities to deal with disputes among clerics or with spiritual matters involving either clerics or laymen. Although such courts are found today among the Jews (see bet din) and among the Muslims (Sharīʿah) as well as the various Christian sects, their functions have become limited strictly to religious issues and to governance of church property. During earlier periods in history, the ecclesiastical courts often had a degree of temporal jurisdiction, and in the Middle Ages the courts of the Roman Catholic Church rivalled the temporal courts in power.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/ecclesiastical-court

4. Wikipedia

An ecclesiastical court, also called court Christian or court spiritual, is any of certain courts having jurisdiction mainly in spiritual or religious matters. In the Middle Ages these courts had much wider powers in many areas of Europe than before the development of nation states. They were experts in interpreting canon law, a basis of which was the Corpus Juris Civilis of Justinian which is considered the source of the civil law legal tradition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecclesiastical_court

Компонентно-дефиниционный анализ языковой единицы:

- Church

- Judge

- Guilty

- Crime

- Religious authorities

- Church property

- Court Christian

- Canon law

ECCLESIASTICAL COURT IN THE BOOK:

Examples: «Born in 1480, Chassenée made his name before the ecclesiastical court of Autun defending rats which had been charged with feloniously destroying a crop of barley. The following documents, from the opening ptition des habitans to the final judgment of the court, do not represent the entire proceedings - for instance, the testimony of witnesses, who might be anything from local peasants to distinguished experts on the behavioural patterns of the defendants, has not been recorded - but the legal submissions embody and often specifically refer to the evidence, and thus there is nothing absent from the essential structure and argument of the case».

«We, the inhabitants of Mamirolle in the diocese of Besançon, being fearful of Almighty God and humbly dutiful to his spouse the Church, and being furthermore most regular and obedient in the payment of our tithes, do hereby on this the 12th day of August 1520 most pressingly and urgently petition the court to relieve and disburden us of the felonious intervention of those malefactors which have infested us already for many seasons, which have brought upon us God's wrath and a shameful libel upon our habitation, and which threaten all of us…».

«And how, when the Bishop and his retinue had departed, bearing off the Bishop in a state of imbecility, the terrified petitioners did examine the Bishop's throne and discover in the leg that had tumbled down like the walls of Jericho a vile and unnatural infestation of woodworm, and how these woodworm, having secretly and darkly gone about their devilish work, had so devoured the leg that the Bishop did fall like mighty Daedalus from the heavens of light into the darkness of imbecility».

Характеристики концепта ECCLESIASTICAL COURT:

- Judgment

- Church

- Woodworm

- Devour

- Rats

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