Issued also as thesis, Fribourg, 1962. / Bibliography: p. xiii-xxi.

Habilitation - Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, 2003. / Academy publication. Copyright by Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz. Includes bibliographical references (p. [459]-500) and index.

Issued also as thesis, Fribourg, 1962. / Bibliography: p. xiii-xxi.

Habilitation - Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, 2003. / Academy publication. Copyright by Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz. Includes bibliographical references (p. [459]-500) and index.

Thesis (Ph.D. in Religious Studies)--S.M.U. / Title from PDF title page (viewed July 12, 2007). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-11, Section: A, page: 4067. Adviser: William J. Abraham. Includes bibliographical references.

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In 896 Pope Stephen VI put the corpse of his predecessor, Pope Formosus, on trial in a Church synod in Rome, known since as the Cadaver Synod. The pontificate and the ordinations of Formosus were annulled and he was reburied in a pilgrims' cemetery from which his body was quickly removed and thrown into the Tiber. It still is generally assumed that Formosus was tried as revenge for his having betrayed Lambert of Spoleto by inviting Arnulf of Carinthia to become emperor, and that Pope Stephen VI was carrying out the wishes of Lambert and his mother. This dissertation, by examining the entire career of Formosus as well as the manuscript evidence for the Cadaver Synod and the 898 Synod of Ravenna, which overturned it, will present a new view of what happened in this neglected period of European history. In so doing, it has reached very different conclusions about the trial and its purpose.

John Dalberg Acton, a German-educated historian, rose to prominence in late Victorian England is an editor of The Rambler and a leader of the Liberal Catholic Movement. His struggle against Ultramontanism reached its climax at the Vatican Council, 1869-1870, which endorsed the dogma of Papal Infallibility and effectively ended the Liberal Catholic Movement. Acton's position on the Vatican Decrees remained equivocal until the Gladstone controversy of 1874 forced him to take a stand, but even his statement of submission failed to satisfy some Ultramontanists. This study, based largely on Acton's published letters and essays, concludes that obedience to Rome did not contradict his advocacy of freedom of conscience, which also placed limits on Papal Infallibility.

Thèse--Pontificio Ateneo antoniano, 2001. / Bibliogr. p. [393]-418. Notes bibliogr.

Teilw. zugl.: Saarbrücken, Universiẗat, Diss., 2006.