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Marriage Advice for a Pope
BRILL 2008; US$ 144.00Reconstructs 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 Chartres
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 88.00Major new study of Ivo of Chartres, providing a new interpretation of the authorship of works attributed to him. more...
The Treatise on the Apostolic Tradition of St Hippolytus of Rome Bishop and Martyr
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 46.95The apostolic tradition of St Hippolytus provides a single source of evidence on the inner life and religious polity of the early Christian Church. This book brings out the value of this treatise for the study of early Christian institutions, and the spirit of the primitive Church more...
The Making of Gratian's Decretum
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 45.00Gratian'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 Francisca
University of Chicago Press 2007; US$ 22.50Inspired 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... more...
The Interdict in the Thirteenth Century
OUP Oxford 2007; US$ 149.99The 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... more...
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