(Source: Brill)
Brill has published a new book on medieval
canon law.
ABOUT THE BOOK
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 address the still dominant ‘master narrative’,
mainly developed by Paul Fournier and enshrined in his magisterial Histoire de
collections canoniques. They present new research on pre-Gratian canon
collection, Gratian’s Decretum, decretal collections, but also hagiography,
theology, and narrative sources challenging the standard account; a separate
chapter is devoted to Fournier’s model and its genesis. New Discourses thus
brings together specialized research and broader questions of who to write the
history of church law in the Middle Ages.
Contributors are Greta Austin, Katheleen G.
Cushing, Stephan Dusil, Tatsushi Genka, John S. Ott, Christof Rolker, Danica
Summerlin, Andreas Thier and John C. Wei.
ABOUT THE EDITOR
Christof Rolker, Ph.D. (Cambridge, 2006),
is professor for Historische Grundwissenschaften at the University of Bamberg.
His numerous publications on medieval canon law include Canon Law and the
Letters of Ivo of Chartres (Cambridge University Press, 2010).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Christof Rolker and Andreas Thier
1 Fournier’s Model and Its Merits
Christof Rolker
2 Law and Reform: The Transmission of
Burchard of Worms’ Liber decretorum
Kathleen G. Cushing
3 New Narratives for the Gregorian Reform
Greta Austin
4 Clerical Networks and Canon Law: The
Beauvais Election Controversy of 1100–04
John S. Ott
5 The Role of Hagiography in the
Development of Canon Law in the Reform Era
Tatsushi Genka
6 Of Scholasticism and Canon Law:
Narratives Old and New
John C. Wei
7 The Decretum of Gratian: A Janus-Faced
Collection
Stephan Dusil
8 Using the ‘Old Law’ in Twelfth-Century
Decretal Collections
Danica Summerlin
9 Canon Law before Gratian: A
Bibliographical Appendix
Christof Rolker
General Index
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