Abstract
The question of clerical exemption from secular judgment was a core constituent of the fierce dispute that set King Henry II of England against Archbishop Thomas Becket of Canterbury in 1163 and culminated in the latterâs murder in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170. This paper traces the Roman origin of immunity, its confused treatment in Gratianâs Decretum, and the working out of a reasonable modus vivendi through episcopal-papal consultation in the following eighty or so years.
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