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The Medieval Church · 860
On the Divorce of Lothar and Theutberga
Hincmar of Reims · c. 806–882
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What it is
A long legal opinion on a king's attempt to divorce his queen, covering consent, consummation, sorcery, and the validity of trial by ordeal.
Why it lasted
The case that established the indissolubility of marriage in Western canon law, argued against a king who lost.
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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