IMC 2025: Sessions
Session 717: Canon Law, III: Custom, Practice, and Place of Legal Learning in the Middle Ages
Tuesday 8 July 2025, 14:15-15:45
| Sponsor: | Iuris Canonici Medii Aevi Consociatio (ICMAC) |
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| Organisers: | Greta Austin, Department of Religion, Spirituality & Society, University of Puget Sound, Washington Danica Summerlin, School of History, Philosophy & Digital Humanities, University of Sheffield |
| Moderator/Chair: | Bruce C. Brasington, Department of History, West Texas A&M University |
| Paper 717-a | The Place of Custom in Stephen of Tournai's Thinking, 1128-1203 (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Canon Law, Law, Monasticism |
| Paper 717-b | The Six Wives of Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair, King of Ireland (d. 1198): A Problem of Eastern and Western Learning? (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Canon Law, Ecclesiastical History, Political Thought |
| Paper 717-c | The Council of Basil-Ferrara-Florence (1431-49) as a 'World of Learning' (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Ecclesiastical History, Education |
| Abstract | This session seeks to understand the relationship between legal learning and the practice of law across the Middle Ages. It looks at learning, custom, and councils considering how they were put into place across three different environments: the nascent twelfth-century law schools, twelfth-century local councils, and the great choreographed councils of the fifteenth century. By looking at law through the lens of the work of Stephen of Tournai, or the events of councils as diverse as legatine councils in twelfth-century Ireland and the great papal councils of the church in their fifteenth-century context, the divergences in how legal learning was understood, deployed adapted can be better recognised and understood across the Middle Ages. |