1st Edition
The Sources of Medieval Canon Law A User's Guide
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Introduction
Melodie H. Eichbauer and Danica Summerlin
1. Papal Letters & Decretals
Danica Summerlin
2. Conciliar Canons
Rowan Dorin
3. What is a Canonical Collection?
Christof Rolker
4. Corpus Iuris Canonici
Stephan Dusil
5. Scholarly Texts: Genres for Teaching and Studying the Corpus Iuris Canonici
Atria A. Larson
6. Physicality of Working with Paratexts
Melodie H. Eichbauer
7. Non-Papal Letters: Capillaries of the Legal Corpus
John Ott
8. The Ordines iudiciorum
Bruce Brasington
9. Local Courts
Sarah White
10. Papal Court Records
Kirsi Salonen
11. Handbooks of Penance
Adriaan Gaastra
12. Navigating the Corpus of Canon Law in the Later Middle Ages
Raphaël Eckert
13. Sources of Medieval Canon Law in the ‘Electronic Age’
Danica Summerlin and Melodie H. Eichbauer
Resource Guide and Finding Aids
Fundamental Works
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Melodie H. Eichbauer specializes in legal and ecclesiastical history from ca. 1000 to ca. 1500. A professor at Florida Gulf Coast University, her research interests focus on legal pluralism and the evolution of legal principles. She is particularly interested in the dissemination of legal knowledge; the interpretation of law; and the ways in which social, political, and intellectual developments and trends shaped both during the height of the medieval period. By examining the larger processes linking law to the world in which it functions, she hopes to show new ways of thinking about current issues.
Danica Summerlin researches and teaches the history of Europe in the central Middle Ages at the University of Sheffield. Focusing mostly on the institutional church and the development and use of law, her research encompasses canon law, manuscripts, and the social and institutional aspects of religious and legal history. Fundamental to all her interests is the question of how law and legal ideas spread and functioned in the medieval world, including questions of jurisdiction, personnel, and texts; the role of the papacy; and the role played by legal pluralism in legal practice in the Middle Ages.
