'New Discourses in Medieval Canon Law Research' offers a new narrative for medieval canon law history which avoids the pitfall of teleological explanations by taking seriously the multiplicity of legal development in the Middle Ages and the divergent interests of the actors involved. The contributors address the still dominant 'master narrative', mainly developed by Paul Fournier and enshrined in his magisterial 'Histoire de collections canoniques'. They present new research on pre-Gratian canon collection, 'Gratian’s Decretum', decretal collections, but also hagiography, theology, and narrative sources challenging the standard account; a separate chapter is devoted to Fournier’s model and its genesis. 'New Discourses' thus brings together specialized research and broader questions of who to write the history of church law in the Middle Ages.
Author(s): Christof Rolker (ed.)
Series: Medieval Law and Its Practice, 28
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 226
City: Leiden
List of Illustrations vii
Abbreviations viii
Notes on Contributors xi
Introduction / Christof Rolker and Andreas Thier 1
1. Fournier’s Model and Its Merits / Christof Rolker 4
2. Law and Reform: The Transmission of Burchard of Worms’ 'Liber decretorum' / Kathleen G. Cushing 33
3. New Narratives for the Gregorian Reform / Greta Austin 44
4. Clerical Networks and Canon Law: The Beauvais Election Controversy of 1100–04 / John S. Ott 58
5. The Role of Hagiography in the Development of Canon Law in the Reform Era / Tatsushi Genka 83
6. Of Scholasticism and Canon Law: Narratives Old and New / John C. Wei 105
7. The 'Decretum' of Gratian: A Janus-Faced Collection / Stephan Dusil 127
8. Using the ‘Old Law’ in Twelfth-Century Decretal Collections / Danica Summerlin 145
Canon Law before Gratian: A Bibliographical Appendix / Christof Rolker 171
General Index 204
Index of Canonical Collections and Decretal Collections 210
Index of Manuscripts 213
