Church bans on Saracen trade were largely unenforced.
Evidence
Every Sunday priests were to denounce all those who had incurred the automatic excommunications for trafficking with Saracens. Heyd has pointed out that the prohibitions were always to some extent a dead letter. Here however we are more concerned with the intention than with the actual achievement. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 2120
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: Mirrors the law merchant material on how formal prohibitions often fail to constrain actual trade behavior.
Related
- Conciliar bans on Saracen trade were routinely unenforced. (similarity 0.93)
- Papal bans on trading with Saracens also restricted pilgrim travel. (similarity 0.83)