This article investigates the early medieval secular through the lens of clerical immunity – that is, the legal exemption of clerics from courts labelled as secular. It focusses on a short text, eventually attributed to Pope Leo, which was written in fifth‐century Gaul to define this immunity. By pursuing this text’s fate as it was revised and put to use into the eleventh century, the article demonstrates how the early medieval secular was a religious category employed for different purposes at different times.

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布尔日教皇利奥，文书豁免权和中世纪早期的世俗主义

本文通过文书豁免权的角度研究了中世纪早期的世俗制度，也就是从法律上标记为世俗的法律对牧师的法律豁免。它侧重于一个简短的文本，该文本最终归功于教皇利奥（Pope Leo），该教皇用五世纪的高卢（Gaul）书写来定义这种豁免。通过遵循经修订并在11世纪使用的文本的命运，本文证明了中世纪早期的世俗是如何在不同时期用于不同目的的宗教类别。