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• Exploring the evolution of legal knowledge in the Middle Ages: the manuscript Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 673 as challenge and chance / Andreas Thier
• The codicology, the palaeography, and the glossing of Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibiothek, 673 (Sg) / Philipp Lenz
• The formation of marriage according to the Sg-Codex - Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 673, 166-169 / Enrique de León
• The uniqueness of 'prima causa' in Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 673 / Melodie H. Eichbauer
• "aliis in carceribus et latumiis reclusis", "aliis carcere et ergastulo reclusis": special language features in the Exserpta ex decretis sanctorum patrum and their interpretation / Titus Lenherr
• A miracle story allegedly in decretis Bonifacii Pape / John C. Wei
• Nota: what the scribes of Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 673 found noteworthy in Gratian's Decretum / Atria A. Larson
• Teaching canon law in the early twelfth century: the evidence of Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 673 / Kenneth Pennington
• The Exserpta in the origins of the science of canon law / José Miguel Viejo-Ximénez
• Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 673 in context: twelfth-century transformations and abbreviations of Gratian's Decretum / Anders Winroth
• Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek 673: a copy of Gratian's Decretum at the beginning of Decretistic teaching - fresh perspectives, new insights, and open questions / Stephan Dusil.

"The Decretum Gratiani is the cornerstone of medieval canon law, and the manuscript St Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 673 an essential witness to its evolution. The studies in this volume focus on that manuscript, providing critical insights into its genesis, linguistic features, and use of Roman Law, while evaluating its attraction to medieval readers and modern scholars. Together, these studies offer a fascinating view on the evolution of the Decretum Gratiani, as well as granting new insights on the complex dynamics and processes by which legal knowledge was first created and then transferred in medieval jurisprudence."-- Back cover.

• Exploring the evolution of legal knowledge in the Middle Ages : the manuscript Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 673 as challenge and chance / Andreas Thier
• The codicology, the palaeography, and the glossing of Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibiothek, 673 (Sg) / Philipp Lenz
• The formation of marriage according to the Sg-Codex - Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 673, 166-169 / Enrique de León
• The uniqueness of 'prima causa' in Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 673 / Melodie H. Eichbauer
• "aliis in carceribus et latumiis reclusis", "aliis carcere et ergastulo reclusis": special language features in the Exserpta ex decretis sanctorum patrum and their interpretation / Titus Lenherr
• A miracle story allegedly in decretis Bonifacii Pape / John C. Wei
• Nota: what the scribes of Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 673 found noteworthy in Gratian's Decretum / Atria A. Larson
• Teaching canon law in the early twelfth century: the evidence of Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 673 / Kenneth Pennington
• The Exserpta in the origins of the science of canon law / José Miguel Viejo-Ximénez
• Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 673 in context: twelfth-century transformations and abbreviations of Gratian's Decretum / Anders Winroth
• Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek 673: a copy of Gratian's Decretum at the beginning of Decretistic teaching - fresh perspectives, new insights, and open questions / Stephan Dusil

"The Decretum Gratiani is the cornerstone of medieval canon law, and the manuscript St Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 673 an essential witness to its evolution. The studies in this volume focus on that manuscript, providing critical insights into its genesis, linguistic features, and use of Roman Law, while evaluating its attraction to medieval readers and modern scholars. Together, these studies offer a fascinating view on the evolution of the Decretum Gratiani, as well as granting new insights on the complex dynamics and processes by which legal knowledge was first created and then transferred in medieval jurisprudence"-- Provided by publisher

• 1. Law in the Early Christian Church
• 2. Canon Law in the Early Middle Ages
• 3. Canon Law amid Eleventh-Century Reform Efforts
• 4. Gratian and the Decretists
• 5. Decretals and the Decretalists
• 6. Canon Law in Intellectual Spaces
• 7. Courts and Procedure
• 8. Canon Law in the Lives of People
• 9. The Impact of Canon Law on Western Societies.
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Melodie H. EICHBAUER is Professor of Medieval History at Florida Gulf Coast University, USA. She is the editor of A Cultural History of Genocide, Vol. 2: The Middle Ages (2021) and The Use of Canon Law in Ecclesiastical Administration, 1000-1250 (2018) with Danica Summerlin and other volumes. Her research focuses on the dissemination of legal knowledge; the interpretation of law; and the ways in which social, political, and intellectual developments and trends shaped both between c.1000 and c.1500 James A BRUNDAGE (1929-2021) was Professor Emeritus of history and, prior to his retirement, Ahmanson-Murphy chair of medieval European history at the University of Kansas, USA. His publications included The Medieval Origins of the Legal Profession: Canonists, Civilians, and Courts (2008), Handbook of Medieval Sexuality (1996) edited with Vern L. Bullough, and Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe (1987).
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• Medieval canon law : introduction / John C. Wei and Anders Winroth
• The early church / Caroline Humfress
• Early medieval canon law / Abigail Firey
• Canon law in the long tenth century, 900-1050 / Greta Austin
• The age of reforms : canon law in the century before Gratian / Christof Rolker
• The reinvention of canon law in the High Middle Ages / Wolfgang P. Müller
• Canon law in a time of renewal, 1130-1234 / Anders Winroth
• The late Middle Ages : four remarks regarding the present state of research / Martin Bertram
• The late Middle Ages : sources / Andreas Meyer
• The canon law of the Eastern churches / Péter Erdő
• Theology and the theological sources of canon law / John C. Wei
• Church councils / Norman Tanner
• Decretals and lawmaking / Gisela Drossbach
• Roman law : symbiotic companion and servant of canon law / Gero Dolezalek
• Law schools and legal education / Anders Winroth
• Local knowledge of canon law, c. 1150-1250 / Anthony Perron
• Medieval canon law manuscripts and early printed books / Susan L'Engle
• Procedures and courts / Wolfgang P. Müller
• Ecclesiastical property, tithes, spiritualia / Charles de Miramon
• The law of benefices / Andreas Meyer
• Religious life / Elizabeth Makowski
• The sacraments of baptism, confirmation, and the Eucharist / Thomas M. Izbicki
• Confession, penance, and extreme unction / Rob Meens
• Saints and relics / Thomas Wetzstein
• Marriage : law and practice / Sara McDougall
• Family law / Franck Roumy
• Criminal law / Lotte Kéry
• Ecclesiastical discipline : heresy, magic, and superstition / Edward Peters
• Just wars and crusades / Frederick H. Russell and Ryan Greenwood
• Excommunication and interdict / Peter D. Clarke
• The spirit of canon law / Peter Landau
• Bibliography of primary sources / Thomas M. Izbicki and Anders Winroth

Canon law touched nearly every aspect of medieval society, including many issues we now think of as purely secular. It regulated marriages, oaths, usury, sorcery, heresy, university life, penance, just war, court procedure, and Christian relations with religious minorities. Canon law also regulated the clergy and the Church, one of the most important institutions in the Middle Ages. This Cambridge History offers a comprehensive survey of canon law, both chronologically and thematically. Written by an international team of scholars, it explores, in non-technical language, how it operated in the daily life of people and in the great political events of the time. The volume demonstrates that medieval canon law holds a unique position in the legal history of Europe. Indeed, the influence of medieval canon law, which was at the forefront of introducing and defining concepts such as 'equity, ' 'rationality, ' 'office, ' and 'positive law, ' has been enormous, long-lasting, and remarkably diverse.
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• Introduction
• 1. Transformations and long-term explanations
• 2. The Christian Roman empire, c. 400
• 3. c. 400: practical complexities and uncertainties
• 4. c. 400: uncertainty about grace
• 5. Papal rulings and ritual
• 6. Hierarchies
• 7. Clerical status and monks
• 8. Returning heretics
• 9. Pelagianism and the papacy
• 10. Leo I
• 11. Post-imperial syntheses
• 12. Early papal laws in the barbarian west
• 13. Carolingian culture and its legacy
• 14. 1050-1150
• 15. Theology and law
• 16. c. 400 and c. 1200: complexity, conversion and bigamia
• 17. Clerics in minor orders
• 18. Choosing bishops
• 19. Overall conclusions
• Appendix A. Leo I
• Appendix B. Gelasius
• Appendix C. Gloss II (Johannes Teutonicus and Bartholomaeus Brixiensis) on Gratian and the liber extra
• Appendix D. Conceptual sources.
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Why did bishops turn to the papacy for advice in late Antiquity? And what does the reception of these decretals reveal about the legal and religious culture of the mid-thirteenth century? This interpretative volume seeks to explain the first decretal age of late antiquity, placing the increased demand for papal jurisprudence - long before it exerted its influence through religious fear - within its social broad context. D. L. d'Avray then traces the reception of this jurisprudence through to the mid-thirteenth century, and the post-Gratian decretal age. Along the way he explores the role of Charlemagne and 'Pseudo-Isidore', which included many genuine early decretals alongside forged ones. Similarities between the Latin world c. 400 and c. 1200 thus help explain parallels between the two decretal ages. This book also analyses decretals from both ages in chapters on pagan marriages, clerics in minor orders, and episcopal elections. For both ages the relation between canon law and other religious genres is elucidated, demonstrating many fascinating parallels and connections.
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• Introduction
• 1. Transformations and long-term explanations
• 2. The Christian Roman empire, c. 400
• 3. c. 400: practical complexities and uncertainties
• 4. c. 400: uncertainty about grace
• 5. Papal rulings and ritual
• 6. Hierarchies
• 7. Clerical status and monks
• 8. Returning heretics
• 9. Pelagianism and the papacy
• 10. Leo I
• 11. Post-imperial syntheses
• 12. Early papal laws in the barbarian west
• 13. Carolingian culture and its legacy
• 14. 1050-1150
• 15. Theology and law
• 16. c. 400 and c. 1200: complexity, conversion and bigamia
• 17. Clerics in minor orders
• 18. Choosing bishops
• 19. Overall conclusions
• Appendix A. Leo I
• Appendix B. Gelasius
• Appendix C. Gloss II (Johannes Teutonicus and Bartholomaeus Brixiensis) on Gratian and the liber extra
• Appendix D. Conceptual sources.
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Why did bishops turn to the papacy for advice in late Antiquity? And what does the reception of these decretals reveal about the legal and religious culture of the mid-thirteenth century? This interpretative volume seeks to explain the first decretal age of late antiquity, placing the increased demand for papal jurisprudence - long before it exerted its influence through religious fear - within its social broad context. D. L. d'Avray then traces the reception of this jurisprudence through to the mid-thirteenth century, and the post-Gratian decretal age. Along the way he explores the role of Charlemagne and 'Pseudo-Isidore', which included many genuine early decretals alongside forged ones. Similarities between the Latin world c. 400 and c. 1200 thus help explain parallels between the two decretal ages. This book also analyses decretals from both ages in chapters on pagan marriages, clerics in minor orders, and episcopal elections. For both ages the relation between canon law and other religious genres is elucidated, demonstrating many fascinating parallels and connections.
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• Úvod
• Würzburská legátská statuta z roku 1287 a české diecéze
• Výtah z polských provinciálních statut z roku 1420 v rukopise mikulovské dietrichštejnské knihovny

• Einleitung : Das Interdikt in der europäischen Vormoderne zwischen Kirchenrecht, sozialer Alltagspraxis und publizistischer Polemik / Von Tobias Daniels, Christian Jaser und Thomas Woelki
• Das Inderdikt als Forschungsproblem
• The Interdict in Past and Current Historiography : Perspectives and Preoccupations / By Peter D. Clarke
• Das Interdikt im späteren Mittelalter / Von Johannes Helmrath
• Das Interdikt als kanonistisches Problem
• Facta relaxatione interdicti, deridebant presbyteros celebrantes : Das Interdikt im Spätmittelalter als Katalysator individueller Gewissensentscheidungen / Von Kerstin Hitzbleck
• O quam horrificum? Der Diskurs um die Bestattung und das Interdikt vor Innozenz III / Von Romedio Schmitz-Esser
• Das Interdikt kritisieren und umgehen : legitime und illegitime Massnahmen geistlicher Gemeinschaften vornehmlich im ausgehenden 12. Jahrhundert / Von Katharina Ulrike Mersch
• 'Sacrilegious Was the Thief or A Nonenforceable Interdict Because of an Arrest Inside a Church (Paolo da Castro in the Last of his Consilia) / By Bernardo Pieri
• Cusanus und das Interdikt : Norm und Praxis / Von Thomas Woelki
• L'interdetto al crocevia della modernità : il commento di Diego de Covarrubias al c. 'Alma mater' / Di Giovanni Chiodi
• Städtische Interdikte zwischen Observanz und Widerstand
• The Urban Interdict in the Church Province of Reims (c. 1090-c. 1140) : Causes and Consequences / By Frederik Keygnaert
• Unheiliges Köln? Interdikte über die Stadt Köln und ihre Bewältigung im Kontext erzbischöflich-städtischer Auseinandersetzungen (1250-1350) / Von Christian Jaser
• Civitatem interdicto ecclesiastico subiacere : Raimondo della Torre e l'arma dell'interdetto (1266-1299) / Di Luca Demontis
• La ciudad bajo interdicto : Conflictos entre Iglesia y poder civil en la diócesis de Valencia (ss. XIV-XVI) / De Vicente Pons Alós
• Altera Roma? Die Folgen von Exkommunikation und Interdikt im mittelalterlichen Venedig / Von Uwe Israel
• Das Interdikt als publizistischer Streitfall
• El Interdictum ecclesiástico en los reinos de León y Castilla hasta el IV Concilio de Letrán / De Carlos de Ayala Martinez
• Der publizistische Kampf um das Interdikt gegen Ludwig den Bayern (1324-1347) / Von Martin Kaufhold
• Florenz und das Interdikt 1478-1480 / Von Tobias Daniels
• Die Medialisierung des Interdikts / Von Massimo Rospocher
• Paolo Sarpi and the Interdict of Venice, 1606-1607 / By Jaska Kainulainen
• Register
• Personen und Werke
• Orte und Institutionen
• Zitate
• Handschriften

• Vorwort
• Ein : leider ungesprochen gebliebenes : Grusswort des Dekans / Christian Walter
• Zur Erinnerung an Peter Landau : von der Gedenkfeier zu einem Erinnerungsband / Susanne Lepsius
• "Prüft aber alles und das Gute behaltet" : Methode, Methodik und Motivation der Rechtsgeschichte Peter Landaus / Thomas Duve
• Entdecker und Aufklärer : Peter Landau und das mittelalterliche Kirchenrecht / Andreas Thier
• Zur Möglichkeit des Kirchenrechts und zum Staatskirchenrecht als "Friedensordnung" bei Peter Landau / Stefan Korioth
• Hegel, Leibniz und Krause : Rechtsphilosophie in rechtshistorischer Perspektive / Wolfgang Forster
• Peter Landau : Biographische Notizen / Andreas Thier
• Veröffentlichungen von Peter Landau
• Abkürzungsverzeichnis
• Verzeichnis der Beiträger

• Canon Law and the 'Revolution in Charity' (c.1150-c.1250)
• 1: Introduction: The Sheep and the Goats
• 2: Reading around the edges: Welfare houses and the general councils, 1139-1215 A Western Model (c.400-c.900)
• 3: The Question of Francia (c.400-817)
• 4: Carolingian Lombardy (c.780-c.860)
• 5: Roman Law and the Western Tradition
• 6: Claims and Innovations Stalking the Borderlands (1100 -1320)
• 7: Canonists and Commentators, at the edges of canon law (1100-1260)
• 8: Robert de Courson and the Council of Reims (1213)
• 9: The Council of Vienne and Late Medieval Hospitals (1312) Conclusion Appendix A: Ad Petitionem: A lost decretal of Alexander III Appendix B: Robert de Courson's Hospital Decree (1213).
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This ground-breaking study explores welfare institutions in western law in the middle ages and establishes, for the first time, a legal model for the hospital. On Hospitals takes us beyond canon law, Carolingian capitularies, and Justinian's Code and Novels, to late Roman testamentary law, identifying new legislation and legal initiatives in every period. In challenging long established orthodoxies, a new history of the hospital emerges, one that is fundamentally a European history. To the history of law, it offers an unusual lens through which to explore canon law. What this monograph identifies for the first time is that the absence of law is the key. This is a study of what happened when there was no legal inheritance, nor even an authority through which to act. Here, at the fringes of law, pioneers worked, and forgers played. Their efforts shed light on councils, both familiar and forgotten, and on major figures, including Abbot Ansegis of Saint Wandrille, Abbot Wala of Corbie, the Pseudo-Isidorian forgers, Pope Alexander III, Bernard of Pavia, and Robert de Courson. Finally On Hospitals offers a new picture of welfare at the heart of Christianity. The place of welfare houses, at the edge of law, has for too long encouraged an assumption that welfare itself was peripheral to popes and canonists and so, by implication, to those who designed the priorities of the Church. This study reveals the central place for them all, across a thousand years, of Christian caritas. We discover a Christian foundation that could belong not to the Church, but to the whole society of the faithful.
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• Introduction: The sheep and the goats
• Reading around the edges : welfare houses and the general councils, 1139-1274
• The question of Francia (400-816)
• Carolingian Lombardy (780-860)
• Roman law and the western tradition
• Carolingian claims and innovations
• Canonists and commentators at the edges of canon law (1100-1260)
• Robert de Courson and the northern reformers
• The Council of Vienne (1311/2) and late medieval hospitals
• Conclusion

This ground-breaking study explores welfare institutions in western law in the middle ages and establishes, for the first time, a legal model for the hospital. On Hospitals takes us beyond canon law, Carolingian capitularies, and Justinian's Code and Novels, to late Roman testamentary law, identifying new legislation and legal initiatives in every period. In challenging long established orthodoxies, a new history of the hospital emerges, one that is fundamentally a European history. To the history of law, it offers an unusual lens through which to explore canon law. What this monograph identifies for the first time is that the absence of law is the key. This is a study of what happened when there was no legal inheritance, nor even an authority through which to act. Here, at the fringes of law, pioneers worked, and forgers played. Their efforts shed light on councils, both familiar and forgotten, and on major figures, including Abbot Ansegis of Saint Wandrille, Abbot Wala of Corbie, the Pseudo-Isidorian forgers, Pope Alexander III, Bernard of Pavia, and Robert de Courson. Finally On Hospitals offers a new picture of welfare at the heart of Christianity. The place of welfare houses, at the edge of law, has for too long encouraged an assumption that welfare itself was peripheral to popes and canonists and so, by implication, to those who designed the priorities of the Church. This study reveals the central place for them all, across a thousand years, of Christian caritas. We discover a Christian foundation that could belong not to the Church, but to the whole society of the faithful.
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• Introduction: Popes, bishops, and the progress of canon law, c. 1120-1234 / Travis R. Baker
• Jura sua unicuique tribuat : Innocent II and the advance of the learned laws
• 'Justinian's laws, not the Lord's : Eugenius III and the learned laws
• Servus servorum Dei : Adrian IV's contribution to canon law (1154-59)
• Alexander ille meus : the papacy of Alexander III
• The effect of Alexander III's 'Rules on the formation of marriage' in Angevin England : the R. Allen Brown memorial lecture (2010)
• The nature of Alexander III's contribution to marriage law, with special reference to Licet preter solitum
• Master of the decretals : a reassessment of Alexander III's contribution to canon law
• Making law or not? : the function of papal decretals in the twelfth century
• 'Our letters have not usually made law (legem facere) on such matters' (Alexander III, 1169) : a new look at the formation of the canon law of marriage in the twelfth century
• Manu sollicitudinis : Celestine III and canon law
• De consultationibus : the role of episcopal consultation in the shaping of canon law in the twelfth century
• The English exile of Archbishop Øystein of Nidaros (1180-83)
• The decretals of Archbishop Øystein of Trondheim (Nidaros)
• Eystein and the world of the learned law with special reference to the Fragmentum Asloense, Oslo, Riksarkivet, Latin fragment 152, 1-2

"Bishops have always played a central role in the making and enforcement of the law of the Church, and none more so than the bishop of Rome. From convening and presiding over church councils to applying canon law in church courts, popes and bishops have exercised a decisive influence on the history of that law. This book, a selection of Anne J. Duggan's most significant studies on the history of canon law, highlights the interactive role of popes and bishops, and other prelates, in the development of ecclesiastical law and practice between 1120 and 1234. This emphasis directly challenges the pervasive influence of the concept of 'papal monarchy', in which popes, and not diocesan bishops and their legal advisers, have been seen as the driving force behind the legal transformation of the Latin Church in the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. Contrary to the argument that the emergence of the papacy as the primary judicial and legislative authority in the Latin Church was the result of a deliberate programme of papal aggrandizement, the principal argument of this book is that the processes of consultation and appeal reveal a different picture: not of a relentless papal machine but of a constant dialogue between diocesan bishops and the papal Curia, in which the 'papal machine' evolved to meet the demand."-- Back cover

• Introduction: Popes, bishops, and the progress of canon law, c. 1120-1234
• Jura sua unicuique tribuat: Innocent II and the advance of the learned laws
• 'Justinian's laws, not the Lord's: Eugenius III and the learned laws
• Servus servorum Dei: Adrian IV's contribution to canon law (1154-59)
• Alexander ille meus: the papacy of Alexander III
• The effect of Alexander III's 'Rules on the formation of marriage' in Angevin England: The R. Allen Brown memorial lecture (2010)
• The nature of Alexander III's contribution to marriage law, with special reference to Licet preter solitum
• Master of the decretals: a reassessment of Alexander III's contribution to canon law
• Making law or not? the function of papal decretals in the twelfth century
• 'Our letters have not usually made law (legem facere) on such matters' (Alexander III, 1169): a new look at the formation of the canon law of marriage in the twelfth century
• Manu sollicitudinis: Celestine III and canon law
• De consultationibus: the role of episcopal consultation in the shaping of canon law in the twelfth century
• The English exile of Archbishop Øystein of Nidaros (1180-83)
• The decretals of Archbishop Øystein of Trondheim (Nidaros)
• Eystein and the world of the learned law with special reference to the Fragmentum Asloense, Oslo, Riksarkivet, Latin fragment 152, 1-2

"Bishops have always played a central role in the making and enforcement of the law of the Church, and none more so than the bishop of Rome. From convening and presiding over church councils to applying canon law in church courts, popes and bishops have exercised a decisive influence on the history of that law. This book, a selection of Anne J. Duggan's most significant studies on the history of canon law, highlights the interactive role of popes and bishops, and other prelates, in the development of ecclesiastical law and practice between 1120 and 1234. This emphasis directly challenges the pervasive influence of the concept of 'papal monarchy', in which popes, and not diocesan bishops and their legal advisers, have been seen as the driving force behind the legal transformation of the Latin Church in the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. Contrary to the argument that the emergence of the papacy as the primary judicial and legislative authority in the Latin Church was the result of a deliberate programme of papal aggrandizement, the principal argument of this book is that the processes of consultation and appeal reveal a different picture: not of a relentless papal machine but of a constant dialogue between diocesan bishops and the papal Curia, in which the 'papal machine' evolved to meet the demand."--Back cover

• Introduction
• Late antiquity and the early Middle Age
• Compilers, reformers, jurisprudents : the early Middle Ages
• The era of reform : 1050-1140
• Gratian and the Decretists
• Papal Decretals and their collections : 1190-1317

An updated and expanded version of the original edition, published in 1998. That original edition went up through 1245. This new version extends to 1317 and adds two important prefaces.
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• Introduction
• Late antiquity and the early Middle Age
• Compilers, reformers, jurisprudents : the early Middle Ages
• The era of reform : 1050-1140
• Gratian and the Decretists
• Papal Decretals and their collections : 1190-1317.

An updated and expanded version of the original edition, published in 1998. That original edition went up through 1245. This new version extends to 1317 and adds two important prefaces.
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• Introduction
• Late antiquity and the early Middle Ages
• Compilers, reformers, jurisprudents : the early Middle Ages
• The era of reform : 1050-1140
• Gratian and the Decretists
• Papal Decretals and their collections : 1190-1317

An updated and expanded version of the original edition, published in 1998. That original edition went up through 1245. This new version extends to 1317 and adds two important prefaces.
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• Part I: 1. Normative texts and practices of the first millennium Philip L. Reynolds
• 2. The many voices of Roman law Jill Harries
• 3. The law of the post-Roman kingdoms Alexander Callander Murray
• 4. Ecclesiastical councils Gregory I. Halfond
• 5. The papacy Clemens Gantner and Stefan Schima
• 6. The sacred palace, public penance, and the Carolingian polity Mayke de Jong
• 7. Canonical collections Roy Flechner
• 8. The practice and literature of penance Rob Meens
• 9. Monastic rules Albrecht Diem
• Part II: 10. Lactantius Elizabeth De Palma Digeser
• 11. Ambrosiaster David Hunter
• 12. Augustine Brian Gronewoller
• 13. Leo I Susan Wessel
• 14. Gelasius I Bronwen Neil
• 15. Dionysius Exiguus David Heith-Stade
• 16. The rule of Benedict Hugh Feiss
• 17. Gregory the Great Carole Straw
• 18. Isidore of Seville Luca Loschiavo
• 19. Pseudo-Isidorus Mercator Clara Harder
• 20. Jonas of Orleans Francesco Veronese
• 21. Hincmar of Reims Charles West
• 22. Regino of Prum Greta Austin
• 23. Burchard of Worms Greta Austin
• 24. New horizons in church law Robert Somerville.
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Great Christian Jurists and Legal Collections in the First Millennium is a systematic collection of essays describing how Christian leaders and scholars of the first millennium in the West contributed to law and jurisprudence and used written norms and corrective practices to maintain social order and to guide people from this life into the next. With chapters on topics such as Roman and post-Roman law, church councils, the papacy, and the relationship between royal and ecclesiastical authority, as well as on individual authors such as Lactantius, Ambrosiaster, Augustine, Leo I, Gelasius I, and Gregory the Great, this book invites a more holistic and realistic appreciation of early-medieval contributions to the history of law and jurisprudence for entry-level students and scholars alike. Great Christian Jurists and Legal Collections in the First Millennium provides a fresh look, from a new perspective, enabling readers to see these familiar authors in a fresh light.
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