New Discourses in Medieval Canon Law Research : Challenging the Master Narrative.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (225 pages)
- Medieval Law and Its Practice Series ; v.28 .
- Medieval Law and Its Practice Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1 Fournier's Model and Its Merits -- Chapter 2 Law and Reform: The Transmission of Burchard of Worms' Liber decretorum -- Chapter 3 New Narratives for the Gregorian Reform -- Chapter 4 Clerical Networks and Canon Law: The Beauvais Election Controversy of 1100-04 -- Chapter 5 The Role of Hagiography in the Development of Canon Law in the Reform Era -- Chapter 6 Of Scholasticism and Canon Law: Narratives Old and New -- Chapter 7 The Decretum of Gratian: A Janus-Faced Collection -- Chapter 8 Using the 'Old Law' in Twelfth-Century DecretalCollections -- Canon Law before Gratian: A Bibliographical Appendix -- General Index -- Index of Canonical Collections and Decretal Collections -- Index of Manuscripts.
The contributions in New Discourses in Medieval Canon Law Research present new research on medieval church law, and propose a new model of how to write the history of canon law in the Middle Ages.