The Lacuna Project

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Religious body

Council of Toulouse (1229)

Findings that rest on exhibits naming this entity

  • REL-2.1: The provincial Council of Toulouse in 1229 forbade lay people in its province to have the books of the Old or New Testament, except a Psalter, a breviary or the Hours of the Virgin, and forbade them to have those books translated into the vernacular.
  • REL-2.10: How far vernacular Scripture was restricted in Europe and England before 1520, given licensing, noble and orthodox ownership and the limits of the Toulouse and Oxford texts, is disputed and is not settled by the documents cited here.

Exhibits naming this entity

  • Exhibit 493 1229. Council of Toulouse (provincial council, Bishop Folquet de Marselha): Council of Toulouse, canon 14 (1229)