Church, Law, and Society in Catalonia, 900-1500
Church, Law, and Society in Catalonia, 900-1500

Author: Paul Freedman

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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This book concerns Catalonia, the north-eastern part of the Iberian peninsula, during the Middle Ages. Centered around the great port city of Barcelona, Catalonia formed the richest and culturally most advanced part of what became the kingdom of Aragon, and extended its commercial and political power throughout the Mediterranean. Two themes in particular are emphasized: the role of the Catalan church in its society, and the condition of the peasantry, especially with respect to serfdom. Questions of episcopal power in relation to monasteries, urban society and the state are discussed in the first eight articles. The remainder consider the reasons for peasant servitude in a region that had previously enjoyed a free system of land tenure. In addition, the essays aim to compare the experience of Catalonia with the more widely-studied realms of northern Europe and with the other Spanish kingdoms.

Conciliarism and Church Law in the Fifteenth Century
Conciliarism and Church Law in the Fifteenth Century

Author: Thomas E. Morrissey

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-10-28

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 1040242189

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Crises are never the best of times and the era of the Great Western Schism (1378-1417) easily qualifies as one of the worst of times. As a professor of canon law at the University of Padua and later cardinal, and as a major theorist in the conciliarist movement, Franciscus Zabarella (1360-1417) tried to do what a good legal mind does: find and explicate a viable and legal solution to the crises of his time, a solution that would stand up in his own era and for the generations that followed. In this volume Thomas Morrissey looks at what he said, wrote and did, and places him and his thought in the context of the late medieval and early modern era, how he reflected that world and how he influenced it. Particular studies elucidate what he wrote on the authority and on the duty of the people in power, what they could do and should do, as well as what they should not do. They also show how he explored the area of early constitution law and human rights in civil and religious society and that his work leads down the road to our modern constitutional democratic societies. The volume includes two previously unpublished studies, on the situation in Padua c. 1400 and on a sermon from 1407, together with an introduction contextualizing the articles.

Law and Liturgy in the Latin Church, 5th-12th Centuries
Law and Liturgy in the Latin Church, 5th-12th Centuries

Author: Roger E. Reynolds

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-10-28

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1040244319

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The two themes brought together in this volume - the canon law and the liturgy of the early medieval Latin Church - have close links, as these articles reveal. At the basis of this lies that fact that the collections and manuscripts with which Professor Reynolds is concerned provide the source material for both fields of study. In the book particular emphasis is given to the Irish Collection canonum hibernensis and its many derivatives, to works from Carolingian Salzburg and eleventh-century Southern Italy, and to liturgical collections. The whole illustrates the need for liturgiologists to be aware of the riches in medieval legal sources, and for legal historians to take account of the wealth of liturgical material that is a principal ingredient of the law of the Church; and demonstrates how much one field can contribute to understanding the development and to the dating of the other. Les deux thèmes réunis dans ce volume - le droit canon et la liturgie de l’Eglise Latine du haut moyan-âge - ont, comme le révèle ce groupe d’articles, des liens très étroits. Ceci reposant sur le fait que les collections et manuscrits, auxquels le professeur Reynolds s’intéresse, apportent la substance se trouvant à la source de ces deux terrains d’études. Dans le livre, une importance particulière est donnée au Collectio canonum hibernensis irlandais et à ses multiples dérivations, ainsi qu’aux travaux issus de Salzburg à l’époque carolingienne à ceux provenant d’Italie méridionale au 11è s. et aux collections liturgiques. L’ensemble illustre la nésessité pour les spécialistes en liturgie d’être conscients de l’abondance de sources légales médiévales et pour les historiens du droit de tenir compte de la richesse en matière liturgique et que forme l’un des ingrédients principaux du droit de l’Eglise; il démontre aussi combien un domaine peut contribuer è la compréhension du développement et à l’assignation de date

Religion and Society in Spain, c. 1492
Religion and Society in Spain, c. 1492

Author: John Edwards

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-10-28

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1040244866

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The articles in this volume explore both individual and corporate aspects of religion in Spain during the 15th and 16th centuries - Jewish, Christian and Muslim. John Edwards looks in particular at the status, experience, and attitudes of the conversos, those who had converted to Christianity to avoid expulsion from Spain, and at the activities of the Inquisition. In the second part of the book he expands his analysis to examine the social, economic, and political basis of religious conflict in the period. The primary focus of the book is on the cities of Andalucia, Cordoba above all, but its concerns extend to Castile and Aragon as well.

Carolingian Catalonia
Carolingian Catalonia

Author: Cullen J. Chandler

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-01-10

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 1108645755

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Drawing on a range of evidence related to royal authority, political events and literate culture, this study traces how kings and emperors involved themselves in the affairs of the Spanish March, and examines how actively people in Catalonia participated in politics centred on the royal court. Rather than setting the political development of the region in terms of Catalonia's future independence as a medieval principality, Cullen J. Chandler addresses it as part of the Carolingian 'experiment'. In doing so, he incorporates an analysis of political events alongside an examination of such cultural issues as the spread of the Rule of Benedict, the Adoptionist controversy, and the educational programme of the Carolingian reforms. This new history of the region offers a robust and absorbing analysis of the nature of the Carolingian legacy in the March, while also revising traditional interpretations of ethnic motivations for political acts and earlier attempts to pinpoint the constitutional birth of Catalonia.

Papal Reform and Canon Law in the 11th and 12th Centuries
Papal Reform and Canon Law in the 11th and 12th Centuries

Author: Uta-Renata Blumenthal

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-07-30

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0429516479

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Published in 1998, these essays focus on Rome and the curia in the 11th and 12th centuries. Several relate to Cardinal Deusdedit and his canonical collection (1087) and to the pontificate of Paschal II (1099-1118). Both personalities and their ideas are presented within the larger setting of contemporary problems, highlighting divergent currents among ecclesiastical reformers at a time of the investiture controversies. A third common theme is formed by discussions of the organization and archival practices of the curia, which were of fundamental importance for the growth and codification of canon law, not to mention papal control of the Church.

Inquisitions and Other Trial Procedures in the Medieval West
Inquisitions and Other Trial Procedures in the Medieval West

Author: H.A. Kelly

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-10-28

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 1040242812

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'Inquisition' was the new form of criminal procedure that was developed by the lawyer-pope Innocent III and given definitive form at the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215. It has since developed a notoriety which has obscured the reality of the procedure, and it is this that Professor Kelly is first concerned with here. In contrast to the old Roman system of relying on a volunteer accuser-prosecutor, who would be punished in case of acquittal, the inquisitorial judge himself served as investigator, accuser, prosecutor, and final judge. A probable-cause requirement and other safeguards were put in place to protect the rights of the defendant, but as time went on some of these defences were modified, abused, or ignored, most notoriously among papally appointed heresy-inquisitors; but in all cases appeal and redress were at least theoretically possible. Unlike continental practice, in England inquisitorial procedure was mainly limited to the local church courts, while on the secular side native procedures developed, most notably a system of multiple investigators/accusers/judges, known collectively as the jury. Private accusers, however, were still to be seen, illustrated here in the final pair of studies on 'appeals' of sexual rape.

Pionniers du droit occidental au Moyen Age
Pionniers du droit occidental au Moyen Age

Author: André Gouron

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-05-31

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 1000947823

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'Pioneers' seems fitting to Professor Gouron to describe the jurists (civilists) of the 12th-century Latin West, that were the bearers of a new science, born in Bologna about 1100. Away from Bologna these pioneers were isolated, scattered from Scotland to Styria or Catalonia, and no more than one hundred can now be identified. These people, and their manuscripts and the relationships between them, are the subject of this collection, the fifth in the Variorum series by André Gouron, himself to be regarded as a pioneer in this field of research. This volume brings together twenty-two studies which have appeared since 1997 in widely scattered publications, often hard to access, along with additional notes and indexes.

Studies on Medieval Liturgical and Legal Manuscripts from Spain and Southern Italy
Studies on Medieval Liturgical and Legal Manuscripts from Spain and Southern Italy

Author: Roger E. Reynolds

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-05-31

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 1000949338

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Though it may not be immediately obvious why articles on topics from such distantly removed areas of western Europe - the Iberian peninsula and southern Italy - should appear in the same volume (the fourth collection by Roger Reynolds), the materials covered illustrate that they are indeed closely related, both in their differences and their similarities. Both peninsulas had their own indigenous liturgies and music (Old Spanish and Beneventan), distinctive written scripts (Visigothic and Beneventan), and legal and theological traditions, and repeatedly these worked their influence on other areas of western Europe. Although there were frequent attempts by the papacy and secular rulers from the 9th to the 13th century to suppress these distinctive traditions in both areas, elements of these nonetheless survived well into the 16th century and beyond. Despite the differences in these traditions, the articles in this volume also demonstrate through manuscript evidence the continued exchange of the distinctive customs between the Iberian peninsula and southern Italian cultures from the very early Middle Ages through the 12th century.

Historical Memory and Clerical Activity in Medieval Spain and Portugal
Historical Memory and Clerical Activity in Medieval Spain and Portugal

Author: Peter Linehan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-02-06

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 1351219081

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This fourth Variorum collection of articles by Peter Linehan comprises items largely from the past decade. The studies represent further investigation of themes broached in earlier works, in particular the latest report on the movements of Cardinal John of Abbeville, and the related subjects of historiography and historians, the interplay of history and government, and aspects of sacral monarchy. Articles on Zamora's frustrated legal history and Zamora's cardinal extend the Castilian theme across the territorial frontier into the kingdom of Portugal, and two other items explore English ramifications and developments in papal procedures.