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[Titulum secundum cod. A] XI. Ne cellararias ex libertis clerici habeant.

[Titulum secundum cod. R] XI. Ne ancillas uel libertas cellarium teneant uel secretum inpendant ministerium clericorum.

[Titulum secundum coll. Hispanam] XI. Vt nullus clericus in cellario uel secreto feminam intromittat.

Ancillas uel libertas a cellario uel a secreto ministerio et ab eadem mansione, in qua clericus manet, placuit remoueri.

(ed. Munier 1963: 200, 220, 222, 224)

[Title according to cod. A] XI. Clerics should not have former slaves as maids.

[Title according to cod. R] XI. No female slaves or freed women should serve as servants in the private chambers of clerics.

[Title according to the Hispana collection] XI. That no cleric should receive a woman in his private chamber.

Female slaves or freed woman should be kept out of all duties in the private chambers of the house in which a cleric dwells.

(trans. J. Szafranowski)

Place of event:

Region

Gaul

City

Agde

About the source:

Title: Council of Agde, Concilium Agathense anno 506
Origin: Agde (Gaul)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian

The Council of Agde was held in September of 506 under the auspices of Cesarius, bishop of Arles, and with the permission of the Visigothic King Alaric. The first 47 canons are considered genuine, since only those are present in the oldest codices. The rest, present in some manuscripts, must have been taken from the other council acts, especially those of the Council of Epaone in 517. This council was attended by 24 bishops, and 8 presbyters and 2 deacons, who represented their bishops. More on the council, see Klingshirn 1994, 97-104.

Edition:

Ch. Munier ed., Concilia Galliae a. 314-a. 506, Corpus Christianorum. Series Latina 148, Turnhoult 1963.

Bibliography:

W.E. Klingshirn, Caesarius of Arles: the making of a Christian community in late antique Gaul, Cambridge 1994.

Categories:

Sexual life - Extramarital

Food/Clothes/Housing - Type of housing

Described by a title - Clericus

Economic status and activity - Indication of wealth

Relation with - Slave/Servant

Relation with - Woman

Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: J. Szafranowski, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER918, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=918