Medieval Canon law and state regulating issues of religious minorities : the statute of Nicolas Trąba 1420 AD

The relationship existing in middle ages between canon law and secular one was non-comparable to any connection amidst legal systems in European history. For this reason, it makes such link hardly imaginable even for modern scholars. Therefore, the topic needs detailed research by a rigorous methodology based notably on exemplary fragments of medieval legal sources. The article adopts such rules to review the double jurisdictional system made to regulate the status of religious minorities in the Kingdom of Poland in the fifteenth century. It consists of three parts: a description of ideological basis to apply canon law to secular matters; a detailed analysis of the accordingly chosen regulations from synodal statutes promulgated by archdean Mikołaj Trąba in 1420 as well as an explanation which groups could have access to the rules and how possibly provisions were spread among the faithful.