Medieval Church Law and the Origins of the Western Legal Tradition: A Tribute to Kenneth Pennington

by Wolfgang Muller, Wolfgang P. Muller, Mary E Sommar, Mary E. Sommar

Overview

In this volume dedicated to medieval canon law expert Kenneth Pennington, leading scholars from around the world discuss the contribution of medieval church law to the origins of the western legal tradition. The stellar cast assembled by editors Wolfgang P. Müller and Mary E. Sommar includes younger scholars as well as long-established specialists in the field. Müller's introduction provides the first comprehensive survey of investigative trends in the field in more than twenty years.

Subdivided into four topical categories, the essays cover the entire range of the history of medieval canon law from the sixth to the sixteenth century. The first section concentrates on the canonical tradition before the advent of academic legal studies in the twelfth century. The second addresses the formation of canonistic theory. The third and fourth sections consider the intellectual exchanges between canon law and other fields of study, as well as the practical application of canons in day-to-day court proceedings.

Though the twenty-seven essays included in this volume are quite diverse, taken together they provide an outstanding overview of the latest research and cutting-edge scholarship on the topic.

Kenneth Pennington is Kelly-Quinn Professor of Ecclesiastical and Legal History at the Catholic University of America. He is the author of numerous works including Pope and Bishops: The Papal Monarchy in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries and The Prince and the Law, 1200-1600: Sovereignty and Rights in the Western Legal Tradition, and is coeditor of the CUA Press series, History of Medieval Canon Law.

Wolfgang P. Müller, associate professor of history at Fordham University, is author or editor of several publications in English and German including Huguccio: The Life, Works, and Thought of a Twelfth-Century Jurist. Mary E. Sommar, currently a scholar in residence at the Stephan Kuttner Institute of Medieval Canon Law in Munich (Germany), concentrates in her published work on Gratian's Decretum.

PRAISE FOR THE BOOK:

"Kenneth Pennington has emerged as one of the leading experts on medieval canon law. . . . This tribute for Pennington's sixty-fifth birthday contains both brief notes and substantial articles." — Thomas Izbicki, Sixteenth Century Journal

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813218687
Publisher:	The Catholic University of America Press
Publication date:	01/05/2011
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	424
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d)

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Abbreviations xi

Introduction: Medieval Church Law as a Field of Historical Inquiry Wolfgang P. Müller 1

Part 1 Western Church Law in an Age without Jurists, ca. 500-1140

1 Kanonisches Recht und Busspraxis: Zu Kontext und Funktion des: Paenitentiale Excarpsus Cummeani Ludger Körntgen 17

2 Zu Effektivität und Aktualität von Reginos Sendhandbuch Wilfried Hartmann 33

3 Zur Entstehung des Sendgerichts im 9. Jahrhundert Rudolf Schieffer 50

4 Ein Kanonist bei der Arbeit: Kleine Rechtstexte aus Codex Barcelona, Archivo de la Corona de Aragón Ripoll 77 Gerhard Schmitz 57

5 Vengeance and Law in Eleventh-Century Worms: Burchard and the Canon Law of Feuds Greta Austin 66

6 Gedanken zum Institut der Chorbischöfe Jörg Müller 77

Part 2 The Formation of Canonistic Theory: Authors and Texts, ca 1140-1350

7 Neither Slave nor Free: Theology and Law in Gratian's Thoughts on the Definition of Marriage and Unfree Persons Anders Winroth 97

8 Reos sanguinis [non] defendat ecclesia: Gratian, mit einem kurzen Blick erhascht? Titus Lenherr 110

9 Twelfth-Century Scholarly Exchanges Mary E. Sommar 123

10 Notas sobre las introducciones In prima parte agitur y Hoc opus inscribitur Carlos Larrainzar 134

11 A Fragment of Compilatio prima at Columbia University Robert Somerville 154

12 Die Phi.-Glossen der Collectio Cassellana Peter Landau 159

13 'Mute Dogs, Unable to Bark': Innocent III's Call to Combat Heresy Keith H. Kendall 170

14 Johannes Faventinus on Marriage (With an Appendix Revisiting the Question of the Dating of Alexander III's Marriage Decretals) Charles Donahue 179

Part 3 Canonistic Doctrine in Practice: Courts and Procedures, ca. 1140-1500

15 The Advocate's Dilemma: What Can You Tell the Client? A Problem in Legal Ethics James A. Brundage 201

16 L'usuraio, il testamento, e l'Aldilà: Tre quaestiones di Marsilio Mantighelli in tema di usura Orazio Condorelli 211

17 Ein neues Kapitel in der Geschichte des kirchlichen Strafrechts: Die Systematisierungsbemühungen des Bernhard von Pavia (†1213) Lotte Kéry 229

18 Summarischer Syndikatsprozeβ: Einflüsse des kanonischen Rechts auf die städtische und kirchliche Gerichtspraxis des Spätmittelalters Susanne Lepsius 252

19 Fonti per la storia della giustizia ecclesiastica medievale a Siena Mario Ascheri 275

20 Barbara Zymermanin's Two Husbands Ludwig Schmugge 289

Part 4 Canonists in Conversation with the Wider World

21 L'origine et la diffusion de l'adage canonique Necessitas non habet legem (VIII^e-XIII^e s.) Franck Roumy 301

22 Innocent III, Huguccio de Ferrare et Hubert de Pirovano: Droit canonique, théologie et philosophie à Bologne dans les années 1180 Charles De Miramon 320

23 Considerazioni sulla pervasività della religione nella società e negli ambienti di studio universitari in età tardo-medievale Manlio Bellomo 347

24 Il diritto canonico, fonte della giurisprudenza occidentale nell'Ungheria e nella Polonia del medioevo Péter Erdö 357

25 Hohfeld on Ockham: A Canonistic Text in the Opus nonaginta dierum Brian Tierney 365

26 Thomas More and the Canon Law R. H. Helmholz 375

Bibliography of Kenneth Pennington's Published Works 389

List of Contributors 399

Index 401