1) Jon Jarrett has done a useful write-up of my recent IHR seminar paper on "Hincmar's use and abuse of the canon law of marriage'. The paper was actually … more
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Hincmar update
@ 2010-09-04 – 08:50:29
[ ... ] use and abuse of canon law', but is mainly going to be on marriage disputes and examining just what sneaky procedural tricks Hincmar gets up to in ... more -
Carolingian authorityness
@ 2009-03-08 – 23:20:21
[ ... ] 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 ... more -
Hincmar’s world 6: law, what is it good for?
@ 2008-10-07 – 21:42:10
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 … more -
Hincmar’s world 3: marriage disputes and ninth century courts
@ 2008-08-29 – 11:39:52
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 … more -
Hincmar’s world 2: bishops, ‘jurisdiction’ and theories
@ 2008-08-17 – 20:13:16
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 … more -
Hincmar’s world 1: canon law in the ninth century?
@ 2008-08-14 – 21:31:29
[ ... ] 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 ... more
