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Pope John XXII and the Franciscan ideal of absolute poverty By Melanie Brunner PhD Dissertation, University of Leeds, 2006 Abstract: My thesis offers an investigation into Pope John XXII’s view of the Franciscan poverty ideal and his reasons for rejecting the doctrine of the absolute poverty of Christ in the bull Cum inter nonnullos (1323). […]
The House of Borgias The Borgias were a Spanish papal family who rose to prominence through their involvement in ecclesiastical and political affairs during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. They were made famous for their corruption through Rodrigo Borgias, who became Pope in 1492. Rodrigo was said to have bought his way to the papal […]
In this paper I shall not primarily discuss this legal regulations rather give some ideas of how the law was used (and shaped on a textual level) at the local courts. Examples will be taken from several court case narrations.
Prostitution in the Medieval Canon Law By James A. Brundage Signs, Vol. 1:4 (1976) Introduction: Prostitution has been called the oldest human profession, and it is certainly true that virtually every known system of positive law has had something to say about the prostitute, the pimp, the procurer, and the conduct of their business. My […]
Meanings of Sex Difference draws on a very wide range of sources, cross- ing and re-crossing traditional boundaries between the disciplines. Joan Cadden also pays particular attention to the cultural and social milieux these sources were produced in; to the assumptions and expectations of authors and readers; to questions of form, style, and presentation.
The Canon Law of the Henry VIII Divorce Case By Phillip Campbell Senior Thesis, Madonna University, 2009 Abstract: This project is an attempt to take an objective look into the legal arguments put forward by King Henry VIII of England in his celebrated divorce case from Catharine of Aragon (1527-1533) in effort to determine whether or not […]
Mutating Monsters: Approaches to “Living Texts” of the Carolingian Era By Abigail Firey Digital Proceedings of the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age, Vol.2:1 (2010) Abstract: Scholars of pre-modern legal history face interesting problems with the interpretation of their materials because the ideal of fixed written laws is compromised by […]
Tolerantia: A Medieval Concept By Istvan Bejczy Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol.58:3 (1997) Introduction: The notion of tolerance is generally considered a product of modern times and in particular of the Age of Reason. The enlightened philosophers, who laid the foundation of liberalism and democracy, are often hailed as the men who introduced […]
Pope, Bishops and Canon Law: A Study of Gregory VII’s Relationship with the Episcopate and the Consequences for Canon Law By Alison Sarah Welsby Leeds History First, Vol.2 (2005) Introduction: The eleventh-century reform movement was a massive phenomena and the pontificate of Gregory VII alone, constitutes an enormous historical topic. Scholarship has tended to focus on the […]
Readers, Texts and Compilers in the Earlier Middle Ages: Studies in Medieval Canon Law in Honour of Linda Fowler-Magerl Edited by Martin Brett and Kathleen G. Cushing Ashgate Publishing, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-7546-6235-8 Reflecting the focus but also range of their honorand’s work in medieval canon law in the era before Gratian, the essays in this […]
The Study of Canon Law and the Eclipse of the Lincoln Schools, 1175–1225 By Frans Van Liere History of Universities, edited by Mordechai Feingold (Oxford University Press, 2003) Synopsis: Lincoln was a respectable centre for the study of grammer, canon law, and theology in the period 1175 – 1225, but some fifty years later, it was Cambridge that […]
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