Cum causa matrimonialis sit de maximis causis... Per uno studio degli acta giudiziari nel Patriarcato d’Aquileia: le cause matrimoniali dalla metà del XIII agli inizi del XIV secolo

Abstract

This paper is intended as a first study of judicial acts of matrimonial cause proceedings in the Patriarchate of Aquileia. It consists of an introductory note and an Appendix. The former firstly deals with the heuristic peculiarities of this branch of documentary sources and with the wedding institution in the late Middle Ages and its impediments according to canon laws; secondly, it gives an account of the Friulian documents of wedding contracts from the second half of the 13th century to the first decades of the 14th century and of the procedural acts, with specific attention to the places of law courts, the people involved, the procedural iter and the documentary praxis inferred from the documents. In the Appendix 10 procedural dossiers and 12 individual documents, mostly yet unknown, are published.

Keywords

• Patriarchate of Aquileia
• Matrimonial causes
• Judicial acts
• Canon laws