Policing Sexual Boundaries, Religious-Ethnic Segregation, and the Estate Solidarities in Red Ruthenia (Galicia) During the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
摘要
In 1423, the Polish King Władysław Jogaila (Jagiełło) (ruled 1386–1434) issued a charter giving special prerogatives to the Lviv Catholic Archbishop Jan Rzeszówski to persecute heretics and offences against the Roman Catholic faith in the territories of Galicia (Red Ruthenia). The king justified the transfer of power to the archbishop by referring to the distinctive cultural and religious traits of the region, which was populated by a great number of schismatics of the Eastern Greek rite who are described in the document, together with other heretics, as enemies of the Roman Catholic Church. The charter claimed that the main task of the archbishop was to fight against their corrupting influence, which endangered the position of the Roman Catholic Church in the region.