Medievalists.net » Gratian http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Gratian’s Dilemma: The Man, the Prostitute, the Maid and the Infidel http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/30/gratians-dilemma-man-prostitute-maid-infidel/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/30/gratians-dilemma-man-prostitute-maid-infidel/#comments Wed, 30 Jul 2014 12:33:34 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=51476 The 12th-century scholar Gratian offers us a fictitious case of a man who wants to marry a prostitute. It only gets crazier from there!

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/30/gratians-dilemma-man-prostitute-maid-infidel/feed/ 0 Bernard Ayglier and William of Pagula: Two Approaches To Monastic Law http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/10/bernard-ayglier-and-william-of-pagula-two-approaches-to-monastic-law/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/10/bernard-ayglier-and-william-of-pagula-two-approaches-to-monastic-law/#comments Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:59:16 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=36376 The 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)

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/10/bernard-ayglier-and-william-of-pagula-two-approaches-to-monastic-law/feed/ 0 Gratian, ‘Father of Canon Law’, was a bishop, historian finds http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/10/gratian-father-of-canon-law-was-a-bishop-historian-finds/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/10/gratian-father-of-canon-law-was-a-bishop-historian-finds/#comments Sat, 11 Aug 2012 04:25:12 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=34670 New 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.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/10/gratian-father-of-canon-law-was-a-bishop-historian-finds/feed/ 0 Plenary Session: Learning the Law in the Carolingian Empire http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/08/plenary-session-learning-the-law-in-the-carolingian-empire/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/08/plenary-session-learning-the-law-in-the-carolingian-empire/#comments Thu, 09 Aug 2012 01:24:48 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=34609 How did Carolingians learn canon law? This paper examines lay knowledge of canon law during the Carolingian period.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/08/plenary-session-learning-the-law-in-the-carolingian-empire/feed/ 0 Making and Using the Law in the North, c. 900-1350 http://www.medievalists.net/2008/10/18/making-and-using-the-law-in-the-north-c-900-1350/ http://www.medievalists.net/2008/10/18/making-and-using-the-law-in-the-north-c-900-1350/#comments Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:48:10 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=456 It is clear that medieval Nordic law was transmitted orally long before it was written down. The Icelandic Free State law-book known as the Grágás, for example, specifically addresses its audience, reminding them that “tomorrow we go to the law mountain” Various other stylistic traits indicate previous oral transmission.

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