Medieval Canon Law
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Overview of the Libri duo of Regino of Prüm.
Canon Law, the law of the Roman Catholic Church, stands at the origin of the Western Legal Tradition and is one of the chief sources of legal concepts and principles we take for granted today. This course will explore the theological and... more
The Language of Abuse provides the first comprehensive examination of marital violence in later medieval England. Drawing from a wide variety of legal and literary sources, this book develops a nuanced perspective of the acceptability of... more
Survey of the role that the ideas of peace and concord played in medieval society and intellectual life.
The study researches the orders of medieval legal knowledge as displayed in medieval canon law. It demonstrates that the knowledge of canon law fundamentally changed between 1000 and 1215 from linear to complex, highly interlinked... more
Статья посвящена книжным коллекциям двух севернорусских архиереев: Афанасия Холмогорского и Александра Устюжского. Наблюдения над кодикологическими особенностями рукописей позволили определить характерные черты принадлежавших им книг.
FIT MONACHUS, QUI PAPA FUIT: LA RINUNCIA DI CELESTINO V TRA DIRITTO E LETTERATURA* 5 ciando ad un ufficio cui non era in grado di attendere «non per viltà ma per onestà». 3 Già nella sontuosa cattedrale di Ferentino il papa attualizzava... more
A short article, presented at a conference in Bologna in 2005. The general topic was medieval Dominican education at the Bologna stadium at San Domenico.
Michel Villey affirma que le passage d'une conception réaliste du droit (celle d'Aristote, du droit romain et de saint Thomas d'Aquin) à une conception subjectiviste (le droit conçu comme pouvoir de l'individu) se fit au xiv e siècle, à... more
St Raymond of Penyafort, the Dominican, was an illustrious decretalist, the editor of »Decretalia« Gregorii IX, and the author of »Summa de paenitentia« – one of the most important confessional handbooks of the 13th century. »Summa de... more
The article analyses the issue of bishops saying prayers during military actions in the period of early and high Middle Ages. The conducted research proves that the tradition of describing bishops’ prayers during military activities... more
Overview of the work and thought of Burchard of Worms.
Late Medieval Papal Legation is a result of long term study of papal legates in the late medieval period. Even though this crucial institution of the reform papacy of the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth centuries kept its standards as... more
1. È ben noto il pensiero dei giuristi medievali intorno al valore probatorio della confessione dell'imputato nel processo criminale: generazioni di maestri contribuirono alla consolidazione della regola dell'efficacia di prova piena ai... more
Հոդվածում քննվում են հերձվածողների՝ ուղղափառության վերադարձի պայմանները, որոնք պահպանվել են հայ եկեղեցական իրավունքի առաջին պաշտոնական ժողովածուի մեջ՝ «Կանոնագիրք Հայոց»-ում։ Ուսումնասիրվել են V-VIII դդ. կանոնախմբերը՝ Հովհաննես Գ. Օձնեցի... more
A longer, review essay of Danica Summerlin's book on the canons of Lateran III.
The Apostolic Constitution on women’s contemplative life "Vultum Dei quaerere," promulgated by Francis on 29 June 2016, not only reinvigorates the academic, as well as the practical, treatment of the cloister of religious institutes, but... more
Neben Beispielen mittelalterlicher Urkundenkritik und ihrer Kriterien werden verschiedene Fälscher vorgestellt, außerdem gibt es weiterführende Literaturhinweise. Agli esempi per la critica medievale di documenti falsi si aggiungono... more
Discovering that the Supreme Court of the United States of America, now dominated by an ultra conservative majority of chiefly white men, is planning to overturn Roe v. Wade (1973) was not as unexpected as one might imagine. At least, for... more
Σύμφωνα με τον ιστορικό Πολύβιο, το πολίτευμα της Ρώμης την περίοδο της Δημοκρατίας λειτουργούσε με τη συνεργασία τριών εξουσιών, της Συγκλήτου, των δύο υπάτων και του λαού, οι οποίες αντιπροσώπευαν αντίστοιχα τρεις τύπους πολιτεύματος:... more
San Pablo (1 Tim 5, 3-16) revela la existencia en la antigüedad cristiana - y persistiendo hasta bien entrada la Edad Media - de un antiguo Orden de Viudas al lado del renombrado Orden de las Vírgenes. Ahora, el más reciente Sínodo de los... more
Plantear que en el mundo premoderno pecado y delito eran nociones práctica y sustancialmente idénticas puede ser un enunciado a la vez verdadero e improductivo. El objetivo general de este libro radica en analizar la configuración de las... more
Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law 26 (2008), 1-29.
This article provides an outline for a new interpretation of the trial of the Templars, with special attention to the texts written by the instigators of the case, namely, Philip the Fair and his ministers. The trial had everything to do... more
Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 673 (= Sg) contains an early version of the Decretum Gratiani (pp. 3a – 201a) and an appendix with 20 further texts (pp. 201a – 203a) in part 1 and numerous patristic, homiletic, canonistic and other... more
Ars artium, l’arte delle arti, è in questi termini che la costituzione 27 del Concilio Laterano IV (1215), recepita nel Liber Extra (X 1.14.14), definisce la missione dei sacerdoti e così intima ai vescovi il precetto ad istruire i... more
Final version of a look at the evidence for Irnerius' writings and teaching
The manuscripts of the Decretum do not contain – with few exceptions – the name of the author and very little is known about Gratian. In 1979, furthermore, a methodologically questionable study that has had a wide impact, tried to... more
Survey of compilations of canon, feudal, and secular law in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
Attuali temi di ricerca:-Lo studio delle fonti e del pensiero giuridico e politico italiano ed europeo nell'età medievale e moderna, e della coeva storia delle istituzioni politiche.-Proseguono le indagini sul pensiero di Alberico... more
The church tithe – the payment to the Church of one-tenth of one’s income – was, in the Middle Ages, the main resource for the rural clergy. Tithes were traditionally due on income from agriculture, trades and commerce, without... more
Despite the renewal of the study of the Decretum Gratiani and the great interest shown by scholars in its early manuscript transmission over the past decade, the glosses have been widely neglected. The paper tries to fill this gap by... more