Post miserable Ierusolimitans
Post miserabile Ierusolimitane is a papal bull with which Pope Innocent III. on August 15, 1198 calls for another crusade . As a result of this bull it came to the Fourth Crusade .
With this bull, the Pope intended to declare the crusade a “papal work”. So far the European princes had led and financed the crusades, in this letter Pope Innocent III takes over. the initiative and set the beginning of the crusade on March 1199. The Pope added to the previous regulation for interest payments and announced that payments already made should be reimbursed.
He instructed the secular princes to obtain the necessary money from Jewish moneylenders and to refuse to pay any interest. Likewise, the princes should forcibly reclaim any interest payments already made to these moneylenders.
literature
- Sandra Brand-Pierach: Unbelievers in Canon Law . The canonical treatment of non-Christians as a symbolic manifestation of political will to power. Dissertation, Konstanz 2004. - online here (PDF, approx. 1.1 MB)