The Making of Gratian's Decretum

The Making of Gratian's Decretum

Author: Anders Winroth

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000-11-23

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1139425854

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This book offers perspectives on the legal and intellectual developments of the twelfth century. Gratian's collection of Church law, the Decretum, was a key text in these developments. Compiled in around 1140, it remained a fundamental work throughout and beyond the Middle Ages. Until now, the many mysteries surrounding the creation of the Decretum have remained unsolved, thereby hampering exploration of the jurisprudential renaissance of the twelfth century. Professor Winroth has now discovered the original version of the Decretum, which has long lain unnoticed among medieval manuscripts, in a version about half as long as the final text. It is also different from the final version in many respects - for example, with regard to the use of of Roman law sources - enabling a reconsideration of the resurgence of law in the twelfth century.


Gratian the Theologian

Gratian the Theologian

Author: John C. Wei

Publisher: CUA Press

Published: 2016-02-19

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 0813228034

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Gratian the Theologian shows how one of the best-known canonists of the medieval period was also an accomplished theologian. Well into the twelfth century, compilations of Church law often dealt with theological issues. Gratian's Concordia discordantium canonum or Decretum, which was originally compiled around 1140, was no exception, and so Wei claims in this provocative book. The Decretum is the fundamental canon law work of the twelfth century, which served as both the standard textbook of canon law in the medieval schools and an authoritative law book in ecclesiastical and secular courts. Yet theology features prominently throughout the Decretum, both for its own sake and for its connection to canon law and canonistic jurisprudence.


The Canons of the Third Lateran Council of 1179

The Canons of the Third Lateran Council of 1179

Author: Danica Summerlin

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-11-28

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 1107145821

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Investigates papal government in the later-twelfth century, focusing on the decrees issued at papal councils, and their reception.


The Humiliation of Sinners

The Humiliation of Sinners

Author: Mary Mansfield

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2018-08-06

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 1501724681

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This compelling book, first published in 1995, changed historians' understanding of the history of public penance, a topic crucial to debates about the complex evolution of individualism in the West. Mary C. Mansfield demonstrates that various forms of public humiliation, imposed on nobles and peasants alike for shocking crimes as well as for minor brawls, survived into the thirteenth century and beyond.


Medieval Church Law and the Origins of the Western Legal Tradition

Medieval Church Law and the Origins of the Western Legal Tradition

Author: Kenneth Pennington

Publisher: CUA Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 0813214629

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In this volume leading scholars from around the world discuss the contribution of medieval church law to the origins of the western legal tradition. Subdivided into four topical categories, the essays cover the entire range of the history of medieval canon law from the sixth to the sixteenth century.


William of Ockham's Early Theory of Property Rights in Context

William of Ockham's Early Theory of Property Rights in Context

Author: Jonathan William Robinson

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2012-11-23

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9004245731

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William of Ockham's (ca. 1288-1347) Opus nonaginta dierum has long been of interest to historians for his theory of rights. Yet the results of this interest has been uneven because most studies do not take sufficient account of the defences of Franciscan poverty already articulated by his fellow Franciscans, Bonagratia of Bergamo, Michael of Cesena, and Francis of Marchia. This book therefore presents and analyzes Ockham's account of property rights alongside those of his confreres. This contextualization of Ockham’s theory corrects many misconceptions about his theory of property, natural law, and natural rights, and therefore also provides a new foundation for studies of his political oeuvre, intellectual development, and significance as a political theorist.


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.