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Adrian VI
Adrian VI 1459-1523, pope (1522-23), a Netherlander (b. Utrecht) named Adrian Florensz; successor of Leo X. He taught at Louvain and was tutor of the young prince, later Holy Roman Emperor Charles V . This was a time when Roman life was extravagant, papal expenditures on worldly objects were lavis... Read more
Paul IV
Paul IV 1476-1559, pope (1555-59), a Neapolitan named Gian Pietro Carafa; successor of Marcellus II. First superior of the Theatines (see Cajetan, Saint ), he was sternly ascetic. A leading reformer, he organized the Inquisition set up by Paul III. As pope, he labored to purify the clergy and abol... Read more
Court of Exchequer
Court of Exchequer , in English history, governmental agency. It originated after the Norman Conquest as a financial committee of the Curia Regis. By the reign of Henry II it had a separate organization and was responsible for the collection of the king's revenue as well as for exercising jurisdicti... Read more
Pedro de Luna
Pedro de Luna , 1328?-1423?, Aragonese churchman, antipope (1394-1417) with the name Benedict XIII. He was a doctor of canon law and as cardinal (1375) became an outstanding member of the Curia Romana. He supported the election of Urban VI , but later switched his allegiance to Robert of Geneva , ... Read more
forum
forum market and meeting place in ancient Roman towns in Italy and later in the provinces, corresponding to the Greek agora . By extension the word forum often indicates the meeting itself in modern usage. The forum was usually square or rectangular in shape and had, among other buildings, a bas... Read more
Arnold of Brescia
Arnold of Brescia , c.1090-1155, Italian monk and reformer, b. Brescia. A priest of irreproachable life, Arnold studied at Paris, where according to tradition he was a pupil of Peter Abelard. He first gained prominence in a struggle at Brescia between the bishop and the city government. Arnold becam... Read more
cardinal
cardinal [Lat.,=attached to and thus "belonging to" the hinge], in the Roman Catholic Church, a member of the highest body of the church. The sacred college of cardinals of the Holy Roman Church is the electoral college of the papacy . Its members are appointed by the pope. A cardinal's insign... Read more
Johann Reuchlin
Johann Reuchlin , 1455-1522, German humanist and lawyer, a scholar of Greek and Hebrew, b. Baden. He taught jurisprudence at Tübingen. In 1492 he began the study of Hebrew, and his Rudimenta Hebraica (1506) was the first Hebrew grammar written by a Christian. His reputation as a scholar had a... Read more
witenagemot
witenagemot [Old Eng.,=meeting of counselors], a session of the counselors (the witan) of a king in Anglo-Saxon England. Such a body existed in each of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. Composed of the higher churchmen, the earls, and other members of the nobility, it was aristocratic, and its membership a... Read more
Robert Grosseteste
Robert Grosseteste , c.1175-1253, English prelate. Educated at Oxford and probably also at Paris, he became one of the most learned men of his time. He taught at Oxford and later, as rector, made the university an important center of learning. In 1224 he became lector of the Franciscans there and fo... Read more

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Curia Regis
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law CURIA REGIS [ Latin, The King's Court. ] The...century the king was entrusting business to his Curia, a body of officials appointed from the...of the royal court. With the king, the Curia Regis administered all of the king's business...
Curia
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law CURIA [ Latin, Court. ] A judicial tribunal or court convened in the sovereign...established church. In England the tribunal of the king's justice was the curia regis, so named because the king originally presided over its proceedings...
Curia Romana
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Curia Romana see cardinal .
curia regis
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History curia regis. See great council .
cardinal
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...for the pope, directing the work of the Curia Romana, as the papal administration is...headship of the church, most organs of the Curia have power to judge, to command, and...infallibility ). The major divisions of the Curia are the secretariat of state, the Roman...
Zemstvo
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...districts' population was divided. The first curia consisted of landowners who possessed 200...income of at least 6,000 rubles. This curia consisted mainly of nobles and landlords...grew more and more prominent. The second curia consisted of city dwellers who possessed...
common law
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History ...justice of the king, exercised through his curia regis , rather than the customary law exercised...Henry I the justice of the king in his curia was sometimes invoked in favour of a subject...had the right and the duty to sit in his curia regis to hear their disputes, or to deal...
Common-Law Courts
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ...justice, the tribunal he appointed was called Curia Regis, the King's Court. Out of the Curia Regis came the three royal common-law courts...king's rights. The remaining part of the Curia Regis reviewed decisions of the Common Pleas...
Martin V
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...codified the laws of Rome and reorganized the Curia, incorporating it with the now leaderless Curia of Avignon. Poggio Bracciolini, a leading...Pope proposed changes in the financing of the Curia, but this effort at reform found little support...
Innocent IV
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...school to become an auditor of the papal Curia. After Gregory IX became pope, Innocent...Papacy While Innocent was working in the Curia, relations between the emperor and the...to accede to most of the demands of the Curia, including restoration of the Papal States...

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Curia
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Curia the papal court at the Vatican, by which the Roman Catholic Church is governed...departments. The word is recorded from the mid 19th century, and comes from Latin curia , denoting a division of an ancient Roman tribe, also (by extension) the...
curia regis
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History curia regis See great council .
Curia, Roman
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions Curia, Roman. The collective organization which conducts the day-to-day affairs of the Roman Catholic Church.
curia
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology curia (Rom. antiq.) XVI; Papal Court XIX. — L. cūria division of the Roman people, its place of assembly, (hence) senate; of unkn. orig. So curial XV. — F. — L.
common law
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...justice of the king, exercised through his curia regis , rather than the customary law exercised...had the right and the duty to sit in his curia regis to hear their disputes. Until the...dispensed by the itinerant justices of the curia regis. When the courts of Common Pleas...
Peter Peregrinus,also known as Pierre De Maricourt
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...and Master ( Magister ) Peter de Maharn-curia, a Picard. ” 11 Since two of...Notandum de magistro Petro de Maharne Curia ” ( “ It should be noted that this is about Peter of Macharne Curia ” ). If the glossator is
John Paul II
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ...fostered good relations with other world religions, especially Islam and Judaism . He reorganized the Curia and continued to internationalize both the Curia and the college of Cardinals. He promulgated the new Codex Iuris Canonici in 1983 and in 1990...
King's Bench, Court of
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...of common law. The Court of King's Bench evolved from the curia regis , the itinerant royal court which dealt with the administration...Peterborough recorded that Henry II ordered five judges of the curia regis to sit permanently to hear complaints from his subjects...
Office, Divine
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ...Mattins had become the general pattern for all clergy, secular and monastic. The Papal Curia developed a shorter Office. Because of the prestige of the Curia, by the 12th cent. this was regarded as the Office of the Roman Church. St Francis...
Moerbeke, William of
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...from excommunication (1272, from Orvieto, seat of the papal curia), and authorized Albertus Magnus to absolve two abbeys in...mathematician and astronomer Campanus of Novara at the papal curia. Moerbeke may well have been in touch with Aquinas at or near...

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Bringing get-it-done spirit to the curia. (World).(influential Americans in Rome)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 3/8/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...with Americans in Rome. Americans in the curia, in religious life, in pontifical universities...The number of Americans in the Vatican curia is at a historic high, and though they...consequential to have served in the Roman curia. Ironically, those two more or less cancel...
Congress Moves CURIA To Front Burner At Last.
Magazine article from: Credit Union Journal; 3/10/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...languishing on the congressional back-burner, CURIA, the regulatory relief bill for credit unions...regulatory relief bill for credit unions call it CURIA lite which had most of the same provisions as CURIA except the three major ones opposed by banks...
Cardinal Arns says pope gives his curia free rein: the pope replies, 'You are mistaken. The curia is the pope.' (Paulo Evaristo Arns of Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 10/11/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...he cited disproportionate power of the Roman curia. Until recent weeks, it has been highly unusual...have placed the destiny of the church with the curia. "My impression is that the curia is governing the church," Arns said in the interview...
Renaissance Humanism and the Papal Curia: Lapo da Castiglionchio the Younger's De curiae commodis
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 10/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; Renaissance Humanism and the Papal Curia: Lapo da Castiglionchio the Younger...eager to acquire an office in the papal curia, which traditionally received expatriates...is, ostensibly, a defense of the papal curia against its detractors and especially against...
CURIA Sponsorship Is Litmus Test For CU Campaign Aid.(CU Regulatory Improvements Act)
Magazine article from: Credit Union Journal; 11/6/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...Regulatory Improvements Act, better known as CURIA. The regulatory relief bill, which has...contributions at the 125 co-sponsors of CURIA, donating more than $2 million to the...to his or her leadership PAC. Because CURIA was never voted on in the 109th Congress...
The Roman curia gets an even break.(All the Pope's Men: The Inside Story of How the Vatican Really Thinks)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 10/15/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...new book All the Pope's Men, he gives the Curia Romana an even break. His goal is to facilitate...describing in some detail the organization of the curia, Allen demolishes five "myths" about the curia. It is not monolithic. It does not speak...
CURIA: A Poor Vintage
Magazine article from: Hoosier Banker; 7/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...Improvements Act (H.R.1537), or CURIA, the credit union powersgrab bill that...actually soured more with time. This new CURIA is worse than its earlier form, and it...strained credit union lobby is saying that CURIA is a regulatory relief and industry modernization...
No Vatican message on Waldheim - it's just bungling by curia
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 6/28/1987; ; 700+ words ; ...thought their protest would offend the curia. The bureaucracy of the Catholic church...insensitivity to Jewish feelings. The curia does not set out deliberately to offend...its routine calculus. It is not that the curia does not care what Jews think. Rather...
Key House Lawmaker Suggests Piecemeal Passage Of CURIA.
News Wire article from: Banking Wire; 10/5/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...agree to pass some of the provisions in CURIA separately, a key member of the House...the credit union executives a hearing on CURIA before his committee, but said even if...is focused on so many other issues that CURIA would have long odds against it. "I do...
Bankers Take The Fizz Out Of Push To Pass 'CURIA Lite'.
Magazine article from: Credit Union Journal; 5/5/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...Actwith most of the same provisions as CURIA, absent the two most objectionable to...the bill every bit as objectionable as CURIA. We thought the bill was lopsided, as...setback for the five-year effort to get CURIA passed. The effort achieved major advances...