BOOK: Laura GAFFURI & Rosa Maria PARRINELLO (eds.), Verbum e ius: predicazione e sistemi giuridici nell'Occidente medievale = preaching and legal frameworks in the Middle Ages [Reti Medievali. E-books 32] (Firenze: Firenze UP, 2019), ISBN 978-88-6453-809-9 [OPEN ACCESS]

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Book abstract:

The crucial relationship between faith (“verbum”) and law (“ius”) has been intensively debated all throughout the Middle Ages. Such a debate was far from being secret and locked in the learning centers. It was quite used by the pastoral care of the medieval Church in order to influence the drafting and/or amendment of legislation, both civil and religious. The texts published in this volume devote special attention to that debate, by focusing on the role of medieval preachers in converting scholars' words on law, community and faith into a public communication addressed to ordinary secular people.

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