New discourses in medieval canon law research : : challenging the master narrative / / editor, Christof Rolker.

New Discourses in Medieval Canon Law Research offers a new narrative for medieval canon law history which avoids the pitfall of teleological explanations by taking seriously the multiplicity of legal development in the Middle Ages and the divergent interests of the actors involved. The contributors...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden : : Brill,, 2019.
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Medieval Law and Its Practice 28.
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 212 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page
  • Illustrations
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction / Christof Rolker and Andreas Thier
  • Fournier’s Model and Its Merits / Christof Rolker
  • Law and Reform: The Transmission of Burchard of Worms’ Liber decretorum / Kathleen G. Cushing
  • New Narratives for the Gregorian Reform / Greta Austin
  • Clerical Networks and Canon Law: The Beauvais Election Controversy of 1100–04 / John S. Ott
  • The Role of Hagiography in the Development of Canon Law in the Reform Era / Tatsushi Genka
  • Of Scholasticism and Canon Law: Narratives Old and New / John C. Wei
  • The Decretum of Gratian: A Janus-Faced Collection / Stephan Dusil
  • Using the ‘Old Law’ in Twelfth-Century Decretal Collections / Danica Summerlin
  • Back Matter
  • Canon Law before Gratian: A Bibliographical Appendix
  • General Index
  • Index of Canonical Collections and Decretal Collections
  • Index of Manuscripts.