This volume looks at the writings and actions of Franciscus Zabarella (1360-1417), the professor of canon law at the University of Padua (later cardinal), as he sought to find and explicate a viable and legal solution to the crisis of the Great West...Loe edasi...
This book examines the current law on the employment status of ministers of religion and suggests reforms for ministers to be given a degree of employment protection. It considers the constant theme in Christian history that the clergy should not be...Loe edasi...
It is impossible to understand how the medieval church functioned, influenced and controlled the lay world within its care, without understanding `canon law. This book examines its development from its beginnings to the end of the Middle Ages, upda...Loe edasi...
Legal scholars and authorities generally agree that the law should be obeyed and should apply equally to all those subject to it, without favour or discrimination. Yet it is possible to see that in any legal system there will be situations when stri...Loe edasi...
This book explains and evaluates the regulatory framework applicable to cathedrals and considers how this regulatory framework is perceived and experienced....Loe edasi...
The central figure in this volume is that of Gratian, whose monumental compilation of canon law sparked off the revival of legal studies in the medieval West. In other collections of essays, Stephan Kuttner dealt with the development of canon law in...Loe edasi...
This is a study of the history and function of the highest ecclesiastical tribunal, the Sacra Romana Rota, from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries. Despite its importance for Christendom and in contrast with other important papal offices, the ac...Loe edasi...
This book presents a scholarly engagement with the way in which legal discipline has evolved within the Church of England since 1688. It explores how the Church of England has come to be without means of effective legal discipline in matters of cont...Loe edasi...
Branded as heretics, outlawed, then forced to fight for their faith as well as their lives, the Hussites - followers of the martyred Bohemian priest Jan Hus (1371-1415) - occupy one of the most colorful and challenging chapters of European religious...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Apr-2012, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199756773)
Law, Person, and Community: Philosophical, Theological, and Comparative Perspectives on Canon Law takes up the fundamental question What is law? through a comparative study of canon law and secular legal theory....Loe edasi...
Providing the Latin texts and English translations of the three surviving versions of Chrodegangs rule, (Regula Originalis Chrodegangi, Institutio Canonicorum, Regula Longior Canonicorum) this volume provides a resource to scholars of mediaev...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Jan-2004, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198258971)
This is one of the first volumes to appear in a landmark new series, The Oxford History of the Laws of England. It traces the history of the reception and role of the canon law in England between 597 and 1649, examining both the establishment of ecc...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Dec-2002, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780195153156)
A persuasive presentation of a controversial thesis, this book has a far-reaching impact on the study of Hebrew Law. He argues that laws in the Covenant Code that are similar to Deuteronomy and the Holiness Code are in fact later than both of these,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Oct-2002, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198269755)
In this new edition, Hamilton Hess has updated his account of The Canons of the Council of Sardica, AD 343 in the light of recent literature, included new material and the full texts of the canons, and translated all quotations into English. Three n...Loe edasi...
This text indicates the course that the authors historical interests have followed since Past and Present in Medieval Spain. It is a combination of Spanish and Portuguese history and historiography spiced up with the history of canon law....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Oct-2001, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199246601)
Common and civil law jurisdictions are represented in this text which looks at the relationship between law and religion. The volume discusses common hermeneutical questions faced by Islamic, Christian and Jewish traditions and the implications for...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-May-2001, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198112099)
This study begins with an account of the development of medieval incest laws and the extent to which they were obeyed, before presenting a survey of classical incest stories. Many were retold in the Middle Ages, but they were frequently adapted to t...Loe edasi...
The focus of this book is on the legal status of the Jews within the Roman Empire and the changes that it underwent when the empire became Christian....Loe edasi...
This work explores the role of canon law in the ecclesiastical reform movement of the eleventh century, commonly known as the Gregorian Reform. Focusing on the Collectio canonum of Bishop Anselm of Lucca, it explores how the reformers came to value...Loe edasi...
