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This chapter investigates the legal origins of the prohibition against impaired clerics. Petitions and letters helped to define 'invalidity' as a legal category, since they contributed directly to medieval canon law's statutes regarding so-called 'defects' of body and mind. This institutional construction of disability allowed the Apostolic See to set a standard for bodies and minds, in order to distinguish the normatively able-bodied from those deemed 'abnormal', impaired. The Papal Chancery thus defined a physical standard in which a body diverging from the norm was considered 'defective', and thereby unfit for clerical office, according to two criteria: its capacity and its image. They were only two mitigating factors for disabled clerics: their innocence and their 'ignorance' (i.e., their lack of 'culpability') in relation to the existence of their impairment.

Author

Ninon Dubourg

Publisher

Amsterdam University Press

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9789048554324

Subjects

History, Christian, Religion