Collected Studies CS1071 The central figure in this volume is that of Gratian, whose monumental compilation of canon law sparked off the revival of legal studies in the medieval West. In other collections of essays, Stephan Kuttner dealt with the development of canon law in the …
"The Collectio Avellana (CA) has an extraordinary richness and variety of content. Imperial rescripts, reports of urban prefects, letters of bishops, and exchanges of letters between popes and emperors, some of which only this compilation preserves, constitute an exceptional doc…
"The Canons are one of the earliest handbooks of penance to appear in any West European vernacular. The material shows the Anglo-Saxons addressing matters ranging from baptism and the ordination of priests to the conduct of the married and sexual norms. Less a translation of the…
"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 volume seeks to explain the first decretal age of late antiquity, placing the increas…
"Reflecting the range of their honorand's interests, the essays in Ritual, Text and Law provide a stimulating and panoramic exploration of the interrelated fields of liturgy and canon law in the Middle Ages, chiefly through the scrutiny of texts and their transmission. Roger Rey…
"Through their translations, with commentaries, of prefaces to medieval canonical collections, the authors trace the development of medieval ecclesiastical law. The first edition of this book was published by Yale University Press in 1998. This second edition includes additional…
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. "Through their translations, with commenta…
"Through their translations, with commentaries, of prefaces to medieval canonical collections, the authors trace the development of medieval ecclesiastical law. The first edition of this book was published by Yale University Press in 1998. This second edition includes additional…
