Author : Danica Summerlin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 37,24 MB
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1107145821
Investigates papal government in the later-twelfth century, focusing on the decrees issued at papal councils, and their reception.
Author : Anne J. Duggan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 43,2 MB
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1317078365
Alexander III was one of the most important popes of the Middle Ages and his papacy (1159-81) marked a significant watershed in the history of the Western Church and society. This book provides a long overdue reassessment of his papacy and his achievements, bringing together thirteen essays which review existing scholarship and present the latest research and new perspectives. Individual chapters cover topics such as Alexander's many contributions to the law of the Church, which had a major impact upon Western society, notably on marriage, his relations with Byzantium, and the extension of papal authority at the peripheries of the West, in Spain, Northern Europe and the Holy Land. But dominant are the major clashes between secular and spiritual authority: the confrontation between Henry II of England and Thomas Becket after which Alexander eventually secured the king's co-operation and the pope's eighteen-year conflict with the German emperor, Frederick I. Both the papacy and the Western Church emerged as stronger institutions from this struggle, largely owing to Alexander's leadership and resilience: he truly mastered the art of survival.
Author : Anders Winroth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 30,38 MB
Release : 2022-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1009063952
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.
Author : Stephen D. Church
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 18,77 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Anglo-Saxons
ISBN : 1783275324
A series which is a model of its kind: Edmund King
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 42,25 MB
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9004387242
The Use of Canon Law in Ecclesiastical Administration, 1000–1234 explores the integration of canon law within administration and society in the central Middle Ages. Grounded in the careers of ecclesiastical administrators, each essay serves as a case study that couples law with social, political or intellectual developments. Together, the essays seek to integrate the textual analysis necessary to understand the evolution and transmission of the legal tradition into the broader study of twelfth century ecclesiastical government and practice. The essays therefore both place law into the wider developments of the long twelfth century but also highlight points of continuity throughout the period. Contributors are Greta Austin, Bruce C. Brasington, Kathleen G. Cushing, Stephan Dusil, Louis I. Hamilton, Mia Münster-Swendsen, William L. North, John S. Ott, and Jason Taliadoros.
Author : Atria Larson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 11,2 MB
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9004315284
A Companion to the Medieval Papacy brings together an international group of experts on various aspects of the medieval papacy. Each chapter provides an up-to-date introduction to and scholarly interpretation of topics of crucial importance to the development of the papacy’s thinking about its place in the medieval world and of its institutional structures. Topics covered include: the Papal States; the Gregorian Reform; papal artistic self-representation; hierocratic theory; canon law; decretals; councils; legates and judges delegate; the apostolic camera, chancery, penitentiary, and Rota; relations with Constantinople; crusades; missions. The volume includes an introductory chapter by Thomas F.X. Noble on the historiographical challenges of writing medieval papal history. Contributors are: Sandro Carocci, Atria A. Larson, Andrew Louth, Jehangir Malegam, Andreas Meyer, Harald Müller, Thomas F.X. Noble, Francesca Pomarici, Rebecca Rist, Kirsi Salonen, Felicitas Schmieder, Keith Sisson, Danica Summerlin, and Stefan Weiß.
Author : Rita Lizzi Testa
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 28,31 MB
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 1527527557
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 documentary collection for researchers of various sectors of antiquity. This volume is the first publication to reconstruct the history of this compilation through the fascinating questions that it poses to the scholar. There are essays on its general structure, and on some of the most singular texts preserved therein. Other papers offer a comparison between this compilation and the other canonical collections compiled in Italy between the fourth and sixth centuries, as well as between the CA and other contemporary literary products. Adopting a new approach, some contributions also ascertain who could physically have access to the materials that were collected in the CA, and where the compiler could find them. All these fresh studies have led to new hypotheses regarding the period in which the collection, or at least some of its parts, took shape and the personality of its author.
Author : Konrad Hoffmann
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 32,86 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Art, Gothic
ISBN : 0870990012
Author : John McClintock
Publisher :
Page : 962 pages
File Size : 21,45 MB
Release : 1874
Category : Bible
ISBN :
Author : Nicholas Vincent
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 12,6 MB
Release : 2012-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0199582874
Magna Carta has long been considered the foundation stone of the British Constitution, yet few people today understand either its contents or its context. With a full English translation of the 1215 charter, Nicholas Vincent introduces the document to a modern audience; explaining its origins and tracing the significance of its role in our history.
