Justicia eclesiástica y control social en burgos durante el siglo XV: El castigo de las faltas y los delitos de clero en la castilla bajomedieval

Abstract

The present article studies the relationship between the extensive regulation regarding behavior and acts, adopted by the Bishops and the Cathedral Chapter of Burgos, and its reflection on the justice system of penance during the Fifteenth century. To this end, 282 cases of offenses and crimes, obtained from the Cathedral Chapter Acts of Burgos, are analysed. Firstly, a typology of the registered offenses and crimes is established, along with the terminology which is used in the sources to define them. Secondly, the punishments applied to the different wrong doigs are classified according to their frequency and variability, and also to their relationship with the cathedral statutes and the rules of the synods. Finally, the degree of involvement that clergy and laity had in the prosecuted crimes is examined. All of this aims at determining whether or not there is a discrepancy between the norm and its implementation.