In the pallium the medieval papacy created a mechanism of control over the far-flung bishops of the Latin church, a prerogative by which the popes shared honor and power with local prelates—and...
Gratian and the Development of Penitential Thought and Law in the Twelfth Century
by Atria Larson
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780813233710
Pub Date: October 1st, 2020
Format: Paperback
This book presents the first full-scale study of the Tractatus de penitentia (C.33 q.3) in Gratian's Decretum, which became the textbook for canon law and served as the basis of the...
An updated and expanded version of the original edition, published in 1998. That original edition went up through 1245. This new version extends to 1317 and adds two important prefaces.Praise...
Cy-près doctrine, which allows the purpose of a failing or impractical charitable gift to be changed, has been understood since the eighteenth century as a medieval canon law principle, derived...
Bishops and the Rise of Frankish Kingship, 300-850
by Michael E. Moore
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780813229621
Pub Date: February 19th, 2017
Format: Paperback
Over a period of some five centuries, Europe was transformed by the emergence of barbarian kingdoms in the regions of the former Roman Empire. In the turbulent post-Roman world, the Christian church...
Gratian the Theologian shows how one of the best-known canonists of the medieval period was also an accomplished theologian. Well into the twelfth century, compilations of Church law often...
Gratian's Decretum is one of the major works in European history, a text that in many ways launched the field of canon law. In this new volume, Atria Larson presents to students and scholars...
The Life, Works, and Thought of a Twelfth-Century Jurist
by Wolfgang Muller
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780813228365
Pub Date: August 22nd, 2015
Format: Paperback
Huguccio was an important lawyer of the medieval church, bishop of Ferrara, and one of the greatest representatives of twelfth-century scholasticism. In this book-length study of this influential...
Essays Inspired by the Early Work of Jacques and Raissa Maritain
Edited by Travis Dumsday
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780982711989
Pub Date: April 17th, 2016
Format: Paperback
Both Jacques and Raïssa Maritain produced large and diverse bodies of writing, and their creative lives spanned decades and encompassed the most turbulent periods of the twentieth century. Scholarly...
