The elevation of the Prague bishopric to an archbishopric in 1344 was reflected in the clerical work of the Prague consistory and the archiepiscopal office. One of the significant changes concerned the introduction of specialized record books. Most of them have survived: especially the socalled Libri confirmationum, which recorded the nominations of clerics to benefices, i.e. court files from the vicar general’s court records; and the so-called Libri erectionum, which recorded foundations and donations. Records of the clergy correctors and of the ordinations granted have also survived to a lesser extent. These books attracted the attention of historians and were edited relatively early with varying degrees of completeness. As regards to the Libri erectionum, 14 volumes are deposited in the archives of the Prague Metropolitan Chapter.
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Canonic law of the late middle ages considered the participation of the clerics in killing rather strictly. The Lateran Council 1215 established that a cleric was neither allowed to issue or declare a sentence of death nor to draft or write papers in connnection with it. The edition of the Apostolic Penitentiary Supplications Registers enables people to judge the situation in Bohemia in the period from the 1430´s to the end of the same century. In the examined period a very specifi c case of „complicity in killing“ appeared four times – a phenomenon connected with reading and writing knowledge peculiar to clerics. They read written orders and wrote for the needs of fighting sides. The argumentation is similar in all cases. Th e matter was always activity on command, resulting moreover from the specific condition of the person in question (the only literate, servant). He never participated in the fight actually. With regard to the volume of analogous scribe activity which can be supposed in the period in question, these four cases were certainly just a small fragment of the actual participation of clerics. The situation in Bohemia is doubtlessly specific because of the fact that utraquist disciples and clerics who wrote in the hussite services of course didn´t appeal to the Penitentiary. Nevertheless it must be supposed that the Penitentiary solved similar cases even in the Czech catholic environment only exceptionally.
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The study deals with the oldest part of the text of the necrology of the Premonstratensian monastery in Doksany. It is preserved in the manuscript NK XIII D 25; it was written in 1373 by Albert, a monk of the Premonstratensian monastery in Strahov. The majority of the identified persons in the necrology come from the 12th and 13th centuries. The main sources used by the scribe also seem to date from this period. He added some entries for the 14th century, but this update did not change the overall character of the text.
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