IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 313: Legal Texts and Their Readers: Using Law in Medieval Europe, III - Authority and Innovation
Monday 1 July 2019, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Iuris Canonici Medii Aevi Consociatio (ICMAC) |
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| Organiser: | Bruce C. Brasington, Department of History, West Texas A&M University, Canyon |
| Moderator/Chair: | Kathleen Cushing, Department of History, Keele University |
| Paper 313-a | The Tree of Law: An Arbor in a 12th-Century Canonistic Manuscript (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Ecclesiastical History, Law, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 313-b | Regesta decretalium et extravagantes: The Use of Papal Decretals around 1200 (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Canon Law, Computing in Medieval Studies, Ecclesiastical History |
| Paper 313-c | May the Clergy Employ Violence or Not?: Confusion at the Top and Its Gradual Resolution (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Canon Law, Ecclesiastical History, Law |
| Abstract | The last two decades have seen the return to prominence of the overarching question of continuity and change across medieval canon law, helping to understand who had access to law, and how they employed it. Focussing on the classical period of canon law, this session is interested in the creation of a body of law and how it was formed. Balancing investigations into ideas such as clerical violence, individual types of text such as papal decretals, and the intriguing contents of individual manuscripts, it will illustrate the nuances and complexity of canon law in a critical time in its development. |