Richard Palmer: ‘This august tribunal’ – The Court of Arches: sex, money and the church in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

This talk is about the Court of Arches, the ancient appeal court of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and its rich archive in Lambeth Palace Library. It outlines court procedure and […]

Exhibitions

Current Exhibitions Previous Exhibitions Moral & Material DecayFour centuries of the Court of Arches Moral & Material Decay invited you to peer into the courtroom of the Province of Canterbury’s […]

Moral & Material Decay – Clerical Misdemeanours

Clerical Misdemeanours Clergy were expected to set an example to their flock and to elicit the respect of parishioners for the established church. It did not always work that way. […]

Moral & Material Decay – Questions of Matrimony

Questions of Matrimony In early modern England, options for settling marital disputes were limited. The first divorce with permission to remarry was obtained by a private act of Parliament in […]

Moral & Material Decay – Introduction

Introduction As the most senior Church court in England, the Court of Arches has exercised its jurisdiction far and wide over an 800-year history. Little is known about the foundation […]

Moral & Material Decay

Moral & Material Decay Four centuries of the Court of Arches Lambeth Palace Library invites you to peer into the courtroom of the Province of Canterbury’s most senior ecclesiastical court. […]

Media

Collections A-Z list

– A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z – The following […]

Archbishops’ Archives

– A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z – The following […]

Churchpeople and Societies

– A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z – The following […]