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IMC 2010: Sessions

Session 1125: Canon Law, III: Texts and Transmission in the 11th and 12th Centuries

Wednesday 14 July 2010, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:Church, Law & Society in the Middle Ages (CLASMA) Research Network
Organiser:Kathleen Cushing, Department of History, Keele University
Moderator/Chair:Kathleen Cushing, Department of History, Keele University
Respondent:Kathleen Cushing, Department of History, Keele University
Paper 1125-aThe Turin Collection Revisited
(Language: English)
Kriston Rennie, School of History, Philosophy, Religion & Classics, University of Queensland
Index terms: Canon Law, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 1125-bLanfranc's Version of the Decretals in Context
(Language: English)
Nicolás Álvarez de las Asturias, Instituto de Derecho Canónico 'San Dámaso', Madrid
Index terms: Canon Law, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Abstract

Paper -a:
Building on the work of Paul Fournier, Roger Reynolds, and Linda Fowler-Magerl, this paper revisits the Turin Collection in Seven Books (Turin, Ms Univ. D. IV. 33, ff.1-165v) with a few objectives in mind: to expand upon its place in the late 11th-/early 12th-century; and, based on internal evidence, to propose some theories on its overall compilation, material organisation, and use.

Paper -b:
Lanfranc's canonical collection contains in its first section a great quantity of abridged decretals, taken from Pseudo-Isidore. This paper will deal with the characteristics of the work of abridgement as shown by the analysis of some of these texts. The paper will also compare this version of the abridged decretals with the Pseudo-Isidorian derivatives in other contemporary collections as well as examining how Lanfranc used these texts.