1st Edition
Decretals and the Creation of the 'New Law' in the Twelfth Century Judges, Judgements, Equity and the Law
By Charles Duggan
Copyright 1998
358 Pages
by
Routledge
358 Pages
by
Routledge
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In this second volume of studies on 12th-century canon law, Charles Duggan emphasises the European context of the emergence of the ius novum, the new law of the Western church, based on specific cases and informed by the academic learning of the schools where canon law was taught as a scholarly discipline. The themes range from marriage and forgery to regional applications, with studies on... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Papal judges delegate and the making of the ’New Law’ in the 12th century; St Thomas of Canterbury and aspects of the Becket dispute in the decretal collections; Decretals of Alexander III to England; English secular magnates in the decretal collections; Decretal letters to Hungary; Italian marriage decretals in English collections: with special reference to the Peterhouse collection; The case of Bernard of Osma: royal influence and papal authority in the diocese of Osma; Improba pestis falsitatis: forgeries and the problem of forgery in 12th-century decretal collections (with special reference to English cases); Equity and compassion in papal marriage decretals to England; Addenda; Index.
Biography
Charles Duggan
'This Variorum collection brings together for the first time Duggan’s most important core soundings in the mass of decretals.' Studia Canonica, Vol. 33, No. 1
