Canon Law Archive
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Picturing Gregory: The Evolving Imagery of Canon Law
Posted on February 4, 2013 | No CommentsThis paper surveys images created for the opening of the Liber extra between around 1240 and 1350, from a variety of standpoints: iconography, page layout, patrons and readers - and also suggests possible ideological agendas that might be embedded in the illustrations. -
Hincmar of Reims on King-making: The Evidence of the Annals of St. Bertin, 861–882
Posted on December 5, 2012 | No CommentsThe Histories and Chronicles Hincmar had in mind were presumably Frankish ones; and Lothar II, succeeding his father, thus clearly came into this section of Hincmar's third category. But of the timing or form of Lothar's becoming king, Hincmar said not a word, preferring, instead, to spell out the Biblical lesson that a bad king (and he hastily disclaimed any allegation that Lothar's father had been a bad king) would see the succession depart from his line. -
The Church in Fourteenth-Century Iceland: Ecclesiastical Administration, Literacy, and the Formation of an Elite Clerical Identity
Posted on November 28, 2012 | No CommentsIn what follows, therefore, I provide a detailed study of Icelandic clergy and the institutions of the Icelandic Church in the period from 1300 to 1404. -
The Law’s Violence against Medieval and Early Modern Jews
Posted on November 19, 2012 | No CommentsKen Pennington examines the issue of forced baptism of Jewish children in the legal literature from the Middle Ages to the early modern period. -
Bernard Ayglier and William of Pagula: Two Approaches To Monastic Law
Posted on October 10, 2012 | No CommentsThe paper examines the role of canon law in two monastic works, the Speculum monachorum (SM) (1272x74) of Bernard Ayglier (d.1282), abbot of Montecassino, and the Speculum religiosorum (SR) (c.1322) of William of Pagula, a canonist and secular priest (d.1332) -
Tolerance of Usury
Posted on October 8, 2012 | No CommentsIn the Middle Ages, could usury be tolerated in the law? -
Muslims in canon law, 650-1000
Posted on September 21, 2012 | No CommentsChristians first encountered Muslims as invaders. Bishops convened in Constantinople by Justinian II at the Council in Trullo of 692 respond to these ‘barbarian invasions’ in several canons. -
Qui coierit cum muliere in fluxu menstruo… interficientur ambo (Lev. 20:18) – The Biblical Prohibition of Sexual Relations with a Menstruant in the Eyes of Some Medieval Christian Theologians
Posted on August 20, 2012 | No CommentsWhat attitudes did medieval Christian theologians have towards the prohibition in Leviticus of sexual relations with a menstruating woman? -
Marriage Impediments in Canon Law and Practice: Consanguinity Regulations and the Case of Orthodox-Catholic Intermarriage in Kyivan Rus’, ca. 1000–1241
Posted on August 18, 2012 | No CommentsThis paper focused on marriage alliances in Eastern Europe and the issue of canon law and consanguinity. -
Unity and Diversity in Early Medieval Canonical Collections
Posted on August 18, 2012 | No CommentsThis paper details differences and similarities in canon law sources in different regions. -
Gratian, ‘Father of Canon Law’, was a bishop, historian finds
Posted on August 10, 2012 | No CommentsNew research has uncovered that Gratian, a famous 12th-century lawyer who compiled the canon law text known as Decretum Gratiani, became the Bishop of Chiusi and died on August 10th in 1144 or 1145, according to paper delivered today at the 14th International Congress of Medieval Canon Law. -
The Legal Framework of Divorce ‘a mensa et thoro’ and the Administration of Justice within the Low Countries
Posted on August 10, 2012 | No CommentsThis paper discussed the divorce procedures in the Low Countries during the late middle ages and early modern period. -
Adultery in Late-Medieval Northern France
Posted on August 10, 2012 | No CommentsThis paper focused on adultery and canon law in later medieval northern France. -
Qui facit adulterium, frangit fidem et promissionem suam: Adultery and the Church in Medieval Sweden
Posted on August 9, 2012 | No CommentsThis paper was part of a series on Canon Law and Medieval Marriage. -
Plenary Session: Learning the Law in the Carolingian Empire
Posted on August 8, 2012 | No CommentsHow did Carolingians learn canon law? This paper examines lay knowledge of canon law during the Carolingian period. -
Monastic ‘Centres’ of Law? Some Evidence from Eleventh-Century Rome
Posted on August 8, 2012 | No CommentsCushing discusses her very preliminary research, which is part of a book-project about Monks and Canon Law in Italy. -
Processus iudiciarius secundum stilum Pragensem:Its Manuscripts and Edition
Posted on August 8, 2012 | No CommentsThis paper is a work in progress for further analysis of Puchnik's work. -
Taking Inventory of Manuscripts. Survey of Tasks Achieved and Tasks to Do
Posted on August 6, 2012 | No CommentsThis paper was an informal discussion on the topic of manuscripts and canonical resources, regional statistics and the problems with current database compilation. -
The Evolutions of Knowledge in Medieval Canon Law
Posted on August 6, 2012 | No CommentsThis paper discussed the way canonical texts were compiled and the history of the shift in their compilation. -
Erectile dysfunction in the Middle Ages – historian examines medieval impotence cases
Posted on August 3, 2012 | No CommentsLike today, the problem of male impotence in the Middle Ages was often serious, and had important consequences for marriages and families. -
The Roman De La Rose and the Thirteenth Century Prohibitions of Homosexuality
Posted on June 11, 2012 | No CommentsThis paper, a tentative approach by someone who is not an expert in this area or on this text, argues that Guillaume de Lorris offers a veiled description of a male to male love relationship. -
Husbands, Wives, and Adultery in Late-Medieval Northern France
Posted on June 10, 2012 | No CommentsIf painting a slightly less stark picture of gender inequality than the above account of total repression for women and total freedom for men, modern scholars generally assume that medieval European courts did not enforce the Christian prohibition against husbands’ adultery. -
The Idea of Natural Rights – Origins and Persistence
Posted on June 10, 2012 | No CommentsBefore turning to this early history there is one more aspect of the contemporary situation that I need to mention. Even in the Western world, the original homeland of natural rights thinking, there is no consensus—and sometimes overt skepticism—about the existence and grounding of such rights. -
The Authoritative Text: Raymond of Penyafort’s Editing of the ‘Decretals of Gregory IX’ (1234)
Posted on April 25, 2012 | No CommentsThe Decretals of Gregory IX, promulgated in 1234, was the first collection of canon law for the Catholic Church invested with universal and exclusive authority, and was the culmination of a century and a half process by which the a now papal-led Church came to be the leading institution within medieval European society. -
The Conjugal Debt and Medieval Canon Law
Posted on March 22, 2012 | No CommentsThe apostle Paul was the earliest influential spokesman for a Christian view of marriage and sexuality. Marital sex was, for Paul, a safeguard against human weakness (1 Cor. 7.1-2).
