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Select documents XXXIX: The religious outlook of a Gaelic lord: a new light on Thomas Óg Maguire
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 July 2016
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The recent accession to the Vatican Archives of registers of the Sacred Penitentiary, a category of business which remained closed when the general records of the papacy were opened to scholarly research at large in 1881, is an important development. It has especially exciting implications for late medieval Irish history The availability of the Penitentiary material will greatly facilitate an undertaking which is of prime importance but for which the sources are otherwise scanty the study of religious sentiment in Ireland in the period from about the second decade of the fifteenth century, when these registers begin, to the Reformation. This is an aspect of ecclesiastical history to which the legalistic and contentious documents of the beneficiary deposits, the principal point of contact between Ireland and the papacy in the middle ages — though immensely valuable in their own right — do not readily lend themselves.
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page no 195 note 1 See Haren, M.J., ‘Vatican Archives as a historical source to c. 1530’ in Archivium Hibernicwn, 39 (1984), p. 12.Google Scholar
page no 195 note 2 A.U., iii, pp 268–9.
page no 195 note 3 Ibid., p. 105.
page no 195 note 4 Ibid., pp 164–5, 170–71, 268–9.
page no 196 note 5 Ibid., p. 243.
page no 196 note 6 Huizinga, Johan, The waning of the middle ages, tr. Hopman, F (Harmondsworth, 1965), p. 89.Google Scholar
page no 197 note 1 The first part of the volume, including this entry, is described as follows in a contemporary hand on f. lr: ‘Registrum sacre penitenciarle super diversis formis recollectum Floren’ de anno domini Millesimoquadringentesimotricesimonono de mense Maii’, with the addition, in another contemporary hand, ‘tempore Eugenii’
page no 197 note 2 The formula indicates that the petition may have been presented as part of a roll or batch. The preceding item is also from Ulster, though on a different subject.
page no 197 note 3 Sc. Lough Erne.
page no 197 note 4 Sc. Aghalurcher, Co. Fermanagh.
page no 197 note 5 Sc. Nicholas de Alberghatis, cardinal priest of S. Croce in Gerusalemme, papal penitentiary