canon law
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Carolingian authorityness from magistra 251 days old
[ ... ] at Leeds on canon law. The decisions of councils are a basic ingredient of any corpus of canon law, so it raises immediate difficulties for ...
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Hincmar’s world 6: law, what is it good for? from magistra 403 days old
It is only now I have started reading histories of Carolingian canon law in a systematic way that I have realised the peculiar position that many authors ...
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Hincmar’s world 3: marriage disputes and ninth century courts from magistra 443 days old
In two previous posts I’ve talked about my problems with the traditional concepts of a canon law system for the ninth century. Now I want to look at ...
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Hincmar’s world 2: bishops, ‘jurisdiction’ and theories from magistra 454 days old
As I said in the last post, making assumptions about the existence of ‘canon law’ in the ninth century doesn’t seem very helpful. One big problem, for ...
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Hincmar’s world 1: canon law in the ninth century? from magistra 457 days old
[ ... ] be considered ‘canon law’ at the time (860) e.g. the church’s rules on marriage. And yet I’m increasingly unsure how useful ‘canon law’ is as a ...
