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IMC 2014: Sessions

Session 1328: Canon Law, II: Canonical Collections and Cultural History - Some Approaches

Wednesday 9 July 2014, 16.30-18.00

Sponsor:Iuris Canonici Medii Aevi Consociatio (ICMAC) / Church, Law & Society in the Middle Ages (CLASMA)
Organiser:Andreas Holndonner, Internationales Kolleg für Geisteswissenschaftliche Forschung, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Moderator/Chair:Ludger Körntgen, Historisches Seminar, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Paper 1328-aBetween Fate, Providentia Dei, and the Free Will: Investigations in Medieval Canon Law on the Basis of Selected Examples, 700-1140
(Language: English)
Andreas Holndonner, Internationales Kolleg für Geisteswissenschaftliche Forschung, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Index terms: Canon Law, Ecclesiastical History, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 1328-bMere Exegesis?: Rabanus Maurus and the Use of His Work by Early Medieval Canonists
(Language: English)
Birgit Kynast, Historisches Seminar, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Index terms: Canon Law, Ecclesiastical History, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Abstract

Canonical Collections do not really have a good press. They are regarded as 'boring', 'dull', or that they are really just an end in themselves - and these are only some of the more cautious prejudices against that kind of sources. But the critiques are wrong: ecclesiastical law dominated the world of the people in the Middle Ages and therefore preserves important and fascinating parts of this world until the present day. Canonical Collections reflect several important issues of medieval everyday life and thought. For over 50 years, researchers have been demanding to read canonical collections from a historico-cultural perspective (e. g. Pierre Legendre). They rarely have been heard. The lecturers of this session are going to present their recent research projects and are trying to connect historico-cultural questions and canonical sources.