IMC 2023: Sessions

Session 505: Clavis Canonum, I

Tuesday 4 July 2023, 09.00-10.30

Sponsor:	Monumenta Germaniae Historica, München / Clavis canonum Project
Organiser:	Christof Rolker, Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften und Europäische Ethnologie, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
Moderator/Chair:	Danica Summerlin, Department of History, University of Sheffield
Paper 505-a	Doing Canon Law History in the Digital Ages: The Clavis Canonum Database and Its Wiki (Language: English) Clemens Radl, Monumenta Germaniae Historica, München Index terms: Canon Law, Computing in Medieval Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 505-b	The Salzburg Codex in an Intellectual Network of Canon Law Textual Production in the Long 10th Century (Language: English) Benjamin Wand, Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, St Louis University Index terms: Canon Law, Ecclesiastical History, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 505-c	Sancta sex, septem, octo: The List of Ecumenical Councils in the Middle Ages, 6th to 16th Centuries (Language: English) Christof Rolker, Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften und Europäische Ethnologie, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg Index terms: Canon Law, Computing in Medieval Studies, Ecclesiastical History, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Abstract	These two sessions explore how digital tools, in particular the Clavis canonum database and now the Clavis Wiki (https://beta.mgh.de/databases/clavis/db/) can help to understand both individual canonical collections and long-term legal change. While digital tools and the availability of digital copies of manuscripts have facilitated research, the workflow and methods have changed so profoundly that new questions can be asked, and new answers found, to traditional problems of canon law history. This includes the question of what 'canon law' was before the 12th century, when 'law' and 'theology' developed into distinct academic fields.