A New Synthesis of the History of Canon Law in the Classical Period, 1140-1234

• Autores: Charles Donahue
• Localización: Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte.: Kanonistische Abteilung, ISSN 0323-4142, Vol. 96, 2010, págs. 609-615
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Wilfried Hartmann and Kenneth Pennington have just edited a multi-authored "History of Canon Law in the Classical Period (1140-1234)". The work summarizes the results of research in the field since the publication of Stephan Kuttner's Repertorium der Kanonistik" in 1937. A number of the authors also depart from the themes of the "Repertorium" in different and interesting ways. The book is of high quality. It might have taken more account of recent scholarship on the composition and dating of Gratian's Decreta and on the emergence of various centres of alegal study. The fact that works on procedure and on the ecclesiastical courts will be included in a separate volume continues and undesirable separation of substance from procedure, of the law as taught in the schools and the law as applied in the courts and in other institutions. While there is much more that could be done in the future with the texts and their transmission, one might ask if we now know enough that we can safely turn to our attention to the ideas that the texts contain, how those ideas were formed and developed, and what happened to those ideas when the students carried them into the wider world.