New Discourses in Medieval Canon Law Research: Challenging the Master Narrative

228 Pages·2019·1.363 MB·English

by  Christof Rolker (ed.)

New Discourses in Medieval Canon Law Research
Medieval Law and Its Practice
Edited by
John Hudson (St Andrews)
Editorial Board
Paul Brand (All Souls College, Oxford)
Emanuele Conte (Universita Roma Tre/ ehess, Paris)
Maribel Fierro (ILC-CCHS, CSIC)
Dirk Heirbaut (University of Ghent)
Richard Helmholz (University of Chicago)
Caroline Humfress (St Andrews)
Magnus Ryan (Peterhouse, Cambridge)
Robin Chapman Stacey (University of Washington)
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New Discourses in Medieval
Canon Law Research
Challenging the Master Narrative
Edited by
Christof Rolker
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Cover illustration: Gratiani decretum cum glosa. München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
München, Clm 23552, fol. 259v (detail). Licence: CC BY-NC-SA. With kind permission of the Bayerische
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Names: Rolker, Christof, 1979–, editor.
Title: New discourses in medieval canon law research : challenging the master
 narrative / Edited by Christof Rolker.
Description: Leiden : Brill, 2019. | Series: Medieval law and its practice ;
 28 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 9789004394384 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004389939 (hardback : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Canon law—History. | Law, Medieval. | Canon law—Study and
 teaching—Europe—History.
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Contents
List of Illustrations VIi
Abbreviations viii
Notes on Contributors xi
Introduction 1
Christof Rolker and Andreas Thier
1 Fournier’s Model and Its Merits 4
Christof Rolker
2 Law and Reform: The Transmission of Burchard of Worms’ Liber
decretorum 33
Kathleen G. Cushing
3 New Narratives for the Gregorian Reform 44
Greta Austin
4 Clerical Networks and Canon Law: The Beauvais Election Controversy of
1100–04 58
John S. Ott
5 The Role of Hagiography in the Development of Canon Law in the Reform
Era 83
Tatsushi Genka
6 Of Scholasticism and Canon Law: Narratives Old and New 105
John C. Wei
7 The Decretum of Gratian: A Janus-Faced Collection 127
Stephan Dusil
8 Using the ‘Old Law’ in Twelfth-Century Decretal Collections 145
Danica Summerlin
vi Contents
Canon Law before Gratian: A Bibliographical Appendix 171
Christof Rolker
General Index 204
Index of Canonical Collections and Decretal Collections 210
Index of Manuscripts 213
Illustrations
Tables
6.1 Parallels in the inscriptions of the Sententiae Sidonis and its formal
sources 121
6.2 Texts 1–4 in the Sententiae Sidonis, Gratian, and the Sic et non 122
6.3 Variants in Text 2 in the Sententiae Sidonis, Gratian, and the Sic et non 123
6.4 Variants in Text 3 in the Sententiae Sidonis, Gratian, and the Sic et non 123
6.5 Variants in Text 1 in the Sententiae Sidonis, Gratian, and the Sic et non 124
6.6 Variants in Text 4 in the Sententiae Sidonis, Gratian, and the Sic et non 125
7.1 Formal sources of D. 31 and D. 32 of Gratian’s Decretum 138
Figure
8.1 Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, nouvelles acquisitions françaises 1761, fol. 29v:
manuscript of the first recension of the Decretum Gratiani 140
Abbreviations
1 Canon Law Collections, Sentence Collections, and Decretal
Collections
2L/8P The so-called Collection in Two Books / Eight Parts, partly ed.
Jean Bernhard, “La collection en deux livres (Cod. Vat. lat.
3832),” Revue de Droit canonique 12 (1962), 9–601
3L Collectio canonum trium librorum, ed. Giuseppe Motta, 2 vols,
MIC Corpus collectionum 8 (Vatican City, 2005–08)
4L The Collection in Four Books, a derivative of 74T (unedited)
5L The Beneventan Collection in Five Books (unedited)
12P The Collection in Twelve Parts, closely related to Burchard’s
Decretum (unedited)
74T Diuersorum patrum sententie siue Collectio in LXXIV titulos
digesta, ed. John T. Gilchrist, 2 vols, MIC Corpus
collectionum 1 (Vatican City, 1973); tr. as The Collection in
Seventy-Four Titles: A Canon Law Manual of the Gregorian
Reform, tr. John T. Gilchrist, Mediaeval Sources in
Translation 22 (Toronto, 1980)
183T Liber canonum diuersorum sanctorum patrum siue Collectio
in CLXXXIII titulos digesta, ed. Giuseppe Motta, MIC Corpus
collectionum 7 (Vatican City, 1988)
Abbo of Fleury Abbo of Fleury, Collectio canonum, ed. in PL 139:473–508
Anselm of Lucca Version ‘A’ of Anselm’s Collectio canonum, partly edited
in Anselmi episcopi Lucensis collectio canonum una cum
collectione minore, ed. Friedrich Thaner, 2 vols (Innsbruck,
1906–15)
Anselmo dedicata The Collectio Anselmo dedicata, imperfectly ed. Jean Claude
Besse, Histoire des textes du droit de l’Église au Moyen-Age
de Denys à Gratien: Collectio Anselmo dedicata: étude et texte
(Paris, 1960); also partly ed. Giuseppe Russo, Tradizione
manoscritta di Leges romanae nei codici dei secoli IX e X della
Biblioteca capitolare di Modena (Modena, 1980)
Bonizo of Sutri Bonizo von Sutri, Liber de vita christiana, ed. Ernst Perels,
Texte zur Geschichte des römischen und kanonischen Rechts
im Mittelalter 1 (Berlin, 1930)