Divorce of Lothar II - Christian Marriage and Political Power in the Carolingian World Heidecker Karl Pevná vazba
Divorce of Lothar II - Christian Marriage and Political Power in the Carolingian World Heidecker Karl Pevná vazba She declares, so the bishops will write in their report on the council, that she is…
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Divorce of Lothar II - Christian Marriage and Political Power in the Carolingian World Heidecker Karl Pevná vazba
She declares, so the bishops will write in their report on the council, that she is unworthy to continue as a married woman. True, the 'inner wound' which she 'confesses' to God and the bishops was not dealt her of her own volition but under duress, but it is in any event so terrible that she no longer feels herself worthy to share a royal or a marital bed or to marry anyone at all. 'Before God and his angels' she bares her heart and confesses to them 'every secret relating to the rumor that had arisen.' The 'rumor'--as will become apparent--concerns her sexual relations with her brother.
The bishops and abbots allow her, as she had supposedly requested, to enter a convent.--from The Divorce of Lothar IIThe Divorce of Lothar II illuminates the origin and development of Western notions of marriage and divorce and the separation of church and state in the context