The tenth volume of the edition of pope Innocent IIIs chancery-registers, published as the eight in the series of the
whole edition, is containing 217 letters written in 1207 and 1208, most of which were issued by the pope. One
entry was sent by the candidate for the German throne, Philip of Suabia, and indicates an approach to compromise
after a long-drawn struggle, and several pieces issued by others, including the king of France, were inserted into
papal letters. Most of these, hoewever, are dealing with theological, liturgical, legistic and juridical questions, the
church organisation of the Latin Empire of Constantinople and the relations to the Greek church in the
Mediterranean and in Ruthenia, political and ecclesiastical issues from Sicily to Sweden, the conflict with the king
of England over the election to the see of Canterbury, the issue over the French kings marriage, other matrimonial
matters and property questions, efforts against heresies, acts of government in the Patrimonium Petri, privileges
and confirmations of rights and possessions of bishoprics, monasteries and hospitals, matters concerning the
episcopate and litigation within the Church, such as contested elections to bishoprics and abbeys or disciplinary
problems, and a variety of decisions offering insights in major and minor problems of the church and the people
around 1200. One of the main recipients was the bishop of Paris. Many of the letters have become decretals.
The volume is offering the critical edition of the texts, the dating of hitherto undated letters, ample historical
comments, identifications of textual parallels and quotations from the Bible, Canon and Roman law, theological,
liturgical and classical texts, and the letters insertion in decretal collections. It has been prepared in cooperation of
the Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung and the Austrian Historical Institute in Rome.