The medieval church taught that marriage could not be dissolved and that consent was primary. However, marriage could be dissolved when one spouse joined a religious order after consenting, but before
The debate over the poverty of Christ and his apostles under Pope John XXII (1316-1334) is one of the most famous intellectual controversies of the Middle Ages. The story of the uncompromising pope o
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