Church and Government in the Middle Ages: Essays presented to C. R. Cheney on his 70th Birthday and Edited by C. N. L. Brooke, D. E. Luscombe, G. H. Martin and Dorothy Owen

by C. N. L. Brooke (Editor), D. E. Luscombe (Editor), G. H. Martin (Editor), Dorothy Owen (Editor)

Overview

The history of Church and government in England and on the continent of Europe between the eleventh and the early fourteenth centuries is the subject of this volume of essays by twelve historians including scholars as well known as C. N. L. Brooke, R. C. van Caenegem, R. Foreville, S. Kuttner and W. Ullmann. Each essay is concerned with a major historical text (such as Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain) or an important type of historical document (such as the writings of a famous civilian, Master Vacarius). The general theme of Church and government in the Middle Ages is illustrated through the eves of different types of officials - among them English royal justices, Norman bishops, and monastic archdeacons - as well of scholars and thinkers who also served the needs of government both lay and ecclesiastical - such as Gratian of Bologna and the hitherto neglected canon lawyer John Baconthorpe.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521089296
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	11/06/2008
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

1. Charter and Chronicle: the use of archive sources by Norman historians Marjorie Chinball; 2. The synod of the province of Rouen in the eleventh and twelfth centuries Raymonde Foreville; 3. Public prosecution of crime in twelfth-century England Raoul C. Van Caenegem; 4. Geoffrey of Monmouth as a historian Christopher Brooke; 5. Gratian and Plato Stephan Kuttner; 6. Vacarius and the Civil Law Peter Stein; 7. William FitzStephen and his Life of Archbishop Thomas Mary Cheney; 8. The Muniments of Ely Cathedral Priory Dorothy Owen; 9. Monastic Archdeacons Jane Sayers; 10. The Lex divinitatis in the Bull Unam Sanctam of Pope Boniface VIII David Luscombe; 11. John Baconthorpe as a Canonist Walter Ullmann; 12. Walter Reynolds and Ecclesiastical Politics, 1313-1316: a Postscript to Councils & Synods, II Jeffrey Denton; 13. Bibliography of the writings of C. R. Cheney Geoffrey Martin.