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The Medieval Church · 7 July 1438
The Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges
The clergy and crown of France
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What it is
A royal ordinance adopting the Basel reforms in France: elections to bishoprics restored, appeals to Rome limited, papal taxation curtailed.
Why it lasted
The charter of Gallicanism, asserting a national church's autonomy under the crown — a model that other kingdoms would notice.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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