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The Cambridge History of Medieval Canon Law

The Cambridge History of Medieval Canon Law

Author: Anders Winroth; John Wei
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781107025042
Published In: January 2022
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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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.

1. Medieval canon law: introduction

John C. Wei and Anders Winroth

Part I. The History of Medieval Canon Law:

2. The early church

Caroline Humfress

3. Early medieval canon law

Abigail Firey

4. Canon law in the long tenth century, 900–1050

Greta Austin

5. The age of reforms: canon law in the century before Gratian

Christof Rolker

6. The reinvention of canon law in the high middle ages