Giovanni Paolo Panini (1692-1765), San Giovanni in Laterano
Puskin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

1. Innocent's Purpose and Agenda

Modern Historians: Ordeal - Consanguinity - Communion -Annual Confession - Omnis utriusque sexus

Vineam Domini, 1213: Reform, Heresy, Crusade, Peace, Liberty (libertas ecclesiae?)

1. Patriarch of Constantinople, 2.Toledo's primacy, 3. Count Raymond IV of Toulouse, 4. Otto IV's absolution,  5. Two dogmatic constitutions re. Joachim of Fiore and Amaury de Bène, 6. Magna carta, 7. Frederick II  8. Crusade

Issues in the Historiography of Fourth Lateran Council

2. Was Innocent Involved in Drafting the Canons?

Stephan Kuttner and Antonio García y García,  "A New Eyewitness Account of the Fourth Lateran Council,"  Traditio 20 (1964) 115-178

Alberto Melloni, "Concilium lateranense IV 1215," Conciliorum oecumenicorum generalium decreta (Turnholt: Brepols, 2013) 151-155

3. Innocent and the  Procedural Norms

Winfried Trusen,  "Das Verbot der Gottesurteile und der Inquisitionsprozeß: Zum Wandel des Strafverfahrens unter dem Einfluß des gelehrten Rechts im Spätmittelalter," Sozialer Wandel im Mittelalter: Wahrnehmungsformen, Erklärungsmuster, Regelungsmechanismen, ed. Jürgen Miethke und Klaus Schreiner ( Sigmaringen: Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 1994) 235-247

 

Winfried Trusen,  "Der Inquisitionsprozeß: Seine historischen Grundlagen und frühen Formen," Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte, Kanonistische Abteilung 74 (1988) 168-230


Richard M. Fraher, "IV Lateran Revolution in Criminal Procedure:  The Birth of Inquisitio, the End of Ordeals, and Innocent III's Vision of Ecclesiastical Politics,"  Studia in honorem Eminentissimi Cardinalis Alfonsi M. Stickler, ed. Rosalio Iosepho Card. Castillo Lara (Studia et Textus Historiae Iuris Canonici 7; Rome: Libreria Ateneo Salesiano, 1992) 97-111