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  • The Making of Gratian's Decretumby Anders Winroth; Rosamond McKitterick; Christine Carpenter; Jonathan Shepard

    Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 45.00

    Gratian's Decretum was a key text in the legal and intellectual developments of the twelfth century, and long remained a fundamental work. Professor Winroth has now discovered the shorter, original version of the Decretum, which invites a reconsideration of the resurgence of law in the twelfth century. more...

  • The Inquisition of Franciscaby Francisca de los Apóstoles; Gillian T. W. Ahlgren

    University of Chicago Press 2007; US$ 22.50

    Inspired by a series of visions, Francisca de los Apóstoles (1539-after 1578) and her sister Isabella attempted in 1573 to organize a beaterio , a lay community of pious women devoted to the religious life, to offer prayers and penance for the reparation of human sin, especially those of corrupt clerics. But their efforts to minister to the poor of Toledo and to call for general ecclesiastical reform were met with resistance, first from local religious officials and, later, from the Spanish Inquisition. By early 1575, the Inquisitional tribunal in Toledo had received several statements denouncing Francisca from some of the very women she had tried to help, as well as from some of her financial and religious sponsors. Francisca was... more...

  • Marriage Advice for a Popeby Patrick Nold

    BRILL 2008; US$ 144.00

    Reconstructs the scholastic arguments about marital indissolubility and papal power that lay behind John XXII's 1322 constitution Antique Concertationi. This book illustrates the relationship between canon law and theology, and the tensions between papal authority and academic expertise, that animated a controversial pontificate. more...

  • Canon Law and the Letters of Ivo of Chartresby Christof Rolker

    Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 88.00

    Major new study of Ivo of Chartres, providing a new interpretation of the authorship of works attributed to him. more...

  • The Interdict in the Thirteenth Centuryby Peter D. Clarke

    OUP Oxford 2007; US$ 150.00

    The interdict was an important and frequent event in medieval society. It was an ecclesiastical sanction which had the effect of closing churches and suspending religious services. Often imposed on an entire community because its leaders had violated the rights and laws of the Church, popes exploited it as a political weapon in their conflicts with secular rulers during the thirteenth century. In this book, Peter Clarke examines this significant but neglected subject, presenting awealth of new evidence drawn from manuscripts and archival sources. He begins by exploring the basic legal and moral problem raised by the interdict: how could a sanction that punished many for the sins of the few be justified? From the twelfth-century, jurists and... more...

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