New Discourses in Medieval Canon Law Research: Challenging the Master Narrative (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004389939)

New Discourses in Medieval Canon Law Research offers a new narrative for medieval canon law history which avoids the pitfall of teleological explanations by taking seriously the multiplicity of legal development in the Middle Ages and the divergent interests of the actors involved. The contributors address the still dominant 'master narrative', mainly developed by Paul Fournier and enshrined in his magisterial Histoire de collections canoniques. They present new research on pre-Gratian canon collection, Gratian's Decretum, decretal collections, but also hagiography, theology, and narrative sources challenging the standard account; a separate chapter is devoted to Fournier's model and its genesis. New Discourses thus brings together specialized research and broader questions of who to write the history of church law in the Middle Ages.
Contributors are Greta Austin, Katheleen G. Cushing, Stephan Dusil, Tatsushi Genka, John S. Ott, Christof Rolker, Danica Summerlin, Andreas Thier and John C. Wei.

Author: Christof Rolker
ISBN-10: 9004389938
ISBN-13: 9789004389939
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 04/11/2019
Pages: 228
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.10w x 0.70d