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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 March 2011
Ernulf, bishop of Rochester, died aged eighty-four, on 15 March 1124. In the course of his life, he studied under Lanfranc and was a close friend of Anselm at Bec. One-time prior of Christ Church, Canterbury, his advice was apparently sought by the king; he became a much respected abbot of Peterborough; and, as bishop, he instigated the important collection of secular and ecclesiastical law, the Textus Roffensis. Of his own writing, only three letters survive: one to Anselm, pleading with him to return from exile; one to the monk Lambert of St-Bertin, answering four questions on the eucharist and a fifth concerning a passage from the prophet Joel; and the third to Walkelin of Winchester, dealing with the case of canon law which the two men had previously discussed. It is this last letter, appearing in the manuscripts with the title De incestis coniugiis, which makes of Ernulf something more than a shadow among the Anglo-Norman theologians and men of letters who came to England in the aftermath of conquest. It is in this letter-treatise that Ernulf emerges as an accomplished lawyer and juridical thinker, whose approach has departed radically from that of Lanfranc, his former teacher, and is closely comparable to the principles for legal judgement set down by Ivo of Chartres in the preface to his Decretum and Panormia. Ernulf's use of such methods, grounded in, and made possible by, the new systematic collections of canon law, helps to confirm what has already begun to be evident, that this systematic, deliberately and self-consciously rational, jurisprudence finds its way into England well before the dissemination of Gratian's Decretum in the mid-twelfth century.
RS = Rolls Scries; BN = Bibliothèque Nationale; BMCL = Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law I would like to express gratitude to Dr Martin Brett, who suggested the subject in the first place, and offered every possible advice on the canonical collections; to Dr Paul Hyams and Mr John Hudson for helpful comments; and to Professor C. N. L. Brooke and Dr Margaret Gibson for constructive criticism saving me from some serious errors.
1 William of Malmesbury, De gestis pontificum anglorum libri quinque, ed. N. E. S. A. Hamilton (RS, 1920), 138Google Scholar, gives his age at death as eighty-four; for the date, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, ed. and trans. Whitelock, D. et al., London 1961, 191.Google Scholar
2 The letter to Anselm is no. 310 in Schmitt, F. S. (ed.), Anselmi Canluarensis Archiepiscopi Opera Omnia, 6 vols, Seckau-Rome-Edinburgh 1938–61, v. 233–5Google Scholar; letter to Lambert in D'Achcry, L., Spicilegium siue Collectio Veterum aliquot Scriptorum, Paris 1723, iii. 470–4Google Scholar; letter to Walkelin, ibid. 464–70; and PL clxiii. 1457–74. Here I have used Migne's edition. This canonical letter, De incestis coniugiis, is in BN, MS lat. 2446, fos 177ff.; the letter to Lambert is fos 187ff. of the same manuscript and is copied in BL, MS Roy. 7c. vii, fos 100ff.; and again in Bodl. Lib., Oxford, MS Bodley 569, fos 92V–101, where it follows Lanfranc's De corpore et sanguine Domini contra Berengarium; Guitmund's De corpore et sanguine Domini; and Anselm's De incarnatione uerbi. The two letters (to Lambert and Walkelin) are bound with the letters of Fulbert of Chartres, those of Hildebert of Lavardin, and a report of Council of Reims (1148), in Vat. Reg., MS lat 278: see Behrends, F., The Letters of Fulbert of Chartres, Oxford 1976, pp. xlvii–xlviiiGoogle Scholar; this is perhaps the book mentioned in a twelfth-century catalogue of the library at Bee: ‘in alio epistole Lanfranci. in eodem epistole Fulberti Carnotensis et Hildeberti Cenomanensis episcopi, in eodem liber Ernulfi de incestis coniugiis. item IIII quaestiones diuine solute ab eo.’ (See Becker, G., Catalogi Bibliothecarum Antiqui, Bonn 1885, 262Google Scholar.) On the letter to Lambert, see my ‘Ernulf of Rochester and the problems of resemblance’, in Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on St Anselm: St Anselm and St Augustine - Episcopi ad saecula, ed. Schnaubelt, J. C. et al., New York 1988, 143–63.Google Scholar
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8 ‘Ego quoque ex quo habitum sanctac conucrsationis sumpsistis…’: Anselm, ep. xxxviii, Opera iii. 148.
9 For Ernulf's arrival in Canterbury, sec below, n. 25; for the date of Anselm's ep. xxxviii see Schmitt's note, Opera iii. 148.
10 Lanfranc, Monastic Constitutions, ed. Knowles, M. D., London 1951, 104–6Google Scholar; on the question of Lanfranc's borrowings from the customs of Bec, see Knowles's remarks on pp. xii-xiii of his introduction; and Gibson, M., Lanfranc of Bec, Oxford 1978, 27.Google Scholar In the rules laid down by the Constitutions of Lanfranc, the postulant makes his wish known to the guest master and is then taken to talk with ‘the abbot or prior or any other spiritual brother to whom the task should fall’ (‘Loquatur cum co abbas, uel prior, uel aliquis spiritualis fratcr cui iniunctum fuerit’): ibid. 104; in the ceremony itself it is the abbot or ‘qui loco abbatis ordini praecst’: ibid. 105; Anselm might have had in mind either or both of these stages.
11 ‘Nam antequam fieret ista nunc usitata monachici propositi professio et sacratio. multa millia utriusque sexus hominum solo habitu se ipsius esse propositi profitentia eius celsitudinem et coronarti consecuta sunt. Et qui tune habitum sine ipsa professione et sacratione assumptum reiciebant, apostatae iudicabantur. Inexcusabilis ergo es, si deseris sanctum propositum, quod diu hahitu et conuersatione professa es, quamuis professioncm nunc usitatam non legeris et ab episcopo consecrata non fueris’: Anselm, ep. clxviii, Opera iv. 45. See on this, Wilmart, A., ‘La destinataire de la lettre de s. Anselme sur l'état et les voeux de religion’, Revue Bénédictine (1926), 331–4Google Scholar, where Gunnhilda is identified from a Brussels manuscript containing her name in the opening address.
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19 Sprandel, Ivo von Chartres, 7–8.
20 Galtia Christiana ix, c. 818.
21 De gestis, 138.
22 Ivo, ep. lxxviii, PL clxii. 100.
23 See Anselm's letter to Ernulf advising him to leave only with the permission of his abbot, and to go only to a monastery where he could learn from others spiritually as well as have occasion to teach, ep. xxxviii, Opera iii. 148–9.
24 See the passage from the Vita s. Romanae uirginis, Recueuil des Historiens de France xiv, 29.
25 De gestis, 138. He is greeted, together with Gundulf, who was then at Canterbury in a letter from Anselm to Mauritius, ep. lxiv, Opera iii. 180–1; he cannot have been in Canterbury before 1070, when Lanfranc became archbishop.
26 Knowlcs el al., Heads, 33; Greenway, D., Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae ii (Monastic Cathedrals), London 1971, 8.Google Scholar There appears to have been a second Ernulfus who was chaplain to Bishop Gundulf at Rochester. See Anselm to Gundulf: ‘Saluto…domnum Ernulfum, capellanum ucstrum’: ep. cccxxx, Opera v. 264. Anselm mentions ‘domnus prior Ernulfus’, prior of Christ Church, earlier in the same letter. Gundulf's chaplain probably explains the reference to a prior of Rochester (from 1089 to 1093) called Ernulf in the fourteenth-century BL, MSS Roy. 5Di and ii; likewise L. Dclisle, Rouleaux des morts du IXe au XVe siècl, 203; Textus Ruffensis, ed. Hearnc, T., Oxford 1720, 195Google Scholar (‘Ernulfus’ witnesses oath of obedience made by Abbess Avitia of Mailing to Gundulf); Eadmer, Historia nonorum, ed. M. Rule (RS 1884), 192; and sec Smith, R. A. L., ‘The place of Gundulf in the Anglo-Norman Church’, EHR Iviii (1943), 252–72Google Scholar; Greenway, op. cit. 78; Knowlcs et al., op. cit. 63.
27 Anselm, ep. cccvii, Opera v. 229ff.
28 Anselm, ep. cccxxxii, ibid. 267–8: he assures the monks of Christ Church of Ernulf's monastic integrity.
29 Eadmer, Hist, nou., 159.
30 ‘Gemere uiduas, flerc sencs incommoda sua, eo quid cripiatur eis satis augusta, quam uix mcrentur, uictus sui portio. Rapi uirginales et illicito incestari concubitu…ad dedecus honcstati nostrac saccrdotes uxores ducere’: ep. cccx, Opera v. 234. Gilbert Crispin sent a verse-letter expressing similar sentiments, ep. ccclxvi, ibid. v. 309–10; and Gundulf must have felt the same (see ep. cccxxx, ibid. 262–4). In ep. ccclv Anselm consoles three monks from Christ Church who have asked him to return from exile, or at least to allow them to come to him in Lyon. The road is dangerous, he says, especially for monks; and they are to regard Ernulf as ‘quasi alterum me. Ad ilium quasi ad mc recurrite, illi uelut mihi uos credite, ilium sicut mc suscipite’: ibid. 295–6. For other letters from Anselm to Ernulf on the same matter see nos cccxi, cccxxxi, cccil, ccclvii, ccclxiv. Opera, passim.
31 Eadmer, op. cit. 160–3. This criticism of Anselm is taken up by Fröhlich, Walter, ‘Die bischöflichen Kollegen des hl. Erzbischofs Anselm von Canterbury’, Analecta Anselmiana i (1969), 223–67.Google Scholar Anselm's stance in 1097, it is shown, is novel, even revolutionary.
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35 Anselm tells Mauritius to read Virgil under Ernulf if he is not already doing so, ep. lxiv, Opera iii. 180–1.
36 ‘Flos, decor omnis abit - docti sapicntia stabit;/Ut firmamentum stabilis uigor est sapicntum:/Testis scriptura, quia permanet immoritura/Fama uiri clari nec morte potest uiolari./Id quoque testatur Daniel, quia perpetuatur/Gloria doctorum, laus et doctrina bonorum,/Qui uos iustitic, conformant arte sophic./Componunt mores nostros minuuntque labores:/Quomodo uiuendum, quid agendum, quid fugicndum/Sit, descripserunt, idiotas edocuerunt’: F. Liebermann (ed.), ‘Raginald von Canterbury’, Neues Archiv xiii (1888), 538 no. x. The theme is taken up again in no. xi (pp. 538–9): ‘Ergo refulgentes documentis, o sapicntes:/Vestrum quod sumus est, in uobis nostra salus est;/Quod sapimus, facimus, per uos bona uel mala scimus/… Miles…/Qui consolando miseros, egris medicando,/Omnibus equalis pater est, medicalis generalis’: ibid. 538–9. For the judge as doctor and healer, see below, n. 85. Nos viii-xiii are addressed to Ernulf; in xii and xiii, ibid. 539–40, Reginald sends Ernulf a copy of his long poem Malchus. For this poem, see Hunt's, R. W. note in Mediaeval and Renaissance Studies i (1943), 39–40.Google Scholar On Reginald's life and work, see Liebermann, art. cit. 519ff. On the group of monks surrounding Anselm at Canterbury, Southern, R. W., St Anselm and his Biographer, Cambridge 1963. 203–16Google Scholar; and idem. ‘St Anselm and his English pupils’, Mediaeval and Renaissance Studies i (1943), 3–34.Google Scholar
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80 See above pp. 486 ff.: and Sprnndel. Ivo von Charlies. 7–8. Ivo's time at Bec is open to some doubt, see Gibson, Lanfranc. 36.
81 In a remarkably interesting article Stanislas Giet points out that the interpretation of the Synoptic passages on marriage and divorce to the effect that a man is obliged to send away his wife if he knows of her misconduct, is already present in the second-century Shepherd of Hermas (cap. xxix. 4–8); and that this rule, more rigorous than the Mosaic law which allows divorce and re-marriage, is perhaps derived in Hermas not from the Gospels but from the Essene asceticism of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Hermas, evidently like the Essencs, enjoins separation in cases of misconduct and forbids re-marriage, with the object of increasing as far as possible the occasion for repentance in the man and the woman, both of whom are affected by the promiscuity of the one, Gict, S., ‘Aux sources de la doctrine canonique du mariage’, Études d'histoire du droit canonique dédiées à G. Le Bras ii, Paris 1965, 1237–42.Google Scholar
82 Ivo's Preface is a short treatise on the equilibrium of mercy and justice. This equilibrium is the object of legal judgement: for example, ‘sed quid secundum rigorem, quid secundum modcrationcm, quid secundum iudicium, quid secundum misericordiam dicatur, diligenter attendat: quac intc se dissentire non senticbat, qui dicebat: “Misericordiam et iudicium cantabo te, Domine” [Ps. ci. I]; et alibi: “Uniuersae uiae Domini, misericordia et ueritas” [Ps xxv 10]. Habet enim omnis ecclesiastica disciplina principalitcr hanc intentionem, uel omnem aedificationem aduersus scientiam Christi se crigentem destruerc; uel acdificationcm Dei, fidei ueritatc, et morum honcstate constantcm construcrc; uel eamdem si contaminata fuerit, poenitentiae remediis cmundarc. Hujus aedificationis magistra est charitas, quae saluti proximorum consulens, id praccipit aliis fieri quod sibi quisque uult ab aliis impendi. Quicunque ergo ecclcsiasticus doctor regulas ita interpretatur aut moderatur, ut ad regnum charitatis cuncta quae docucrit uel exposuerit, referat, nec peccat, nec errat, cum saluti proximorum consulens, ad fincm sacris institutionibus debitum peruenire intendat’: PL clxi. 47–8. And see on the same theme Alger of Liège, De misericordia et iustitia, PL clxxx. 859–968.
83 Ivo, Preface, PL clxi. 51ff. ‘Maius est enim praeceptum quam permissum. Praeceptum usquequaque sanctum est. Permissum uero aliquando peccato non caret. Praeceptum est: “uxorem a uiro non discederc; quod si discesscrit, manere innuptam” [1 Cor. vii. 10]. Permissum est “Unusquisque habcat suam uxorem propter fornicationem: hoc autem secundum indulgcntiam dico, non secundum imperium” [I Cor. ii. 8]. Ubi indulgentia fuit, locus crat peccati. Quia ergo maius est praeceptum, minus permissum: ubi adest praeceptum, quiescat permissum’: Ernulf, De incestis, PL clxiii. 1472.
84 Ibid. 1473A.
85 Ivo, Preface, PL clxi. 48.
86 ‘Sed in his adhibenda est summa diligentia, et mundandus oculus cordis, quatenus in puniendo, uel parcendo, sanandis morbis charitas sincera subueniat, et nemo ibi uenalium medicorum more, quod suum est quaerat et propheticam illam reprehensionem incurrat: “Mortificabant animas quae non moriebantur. et uiuificabant animas quac non uiuebant” [Ezech. xiii. 19]’: ibid. The false judge is thus the false prophet or prophetess.
87 Ernulf, De incestis, PL clxiii. 1463C.
88 Ibid. 1460C.
89 ‘Foedus dico, coelitus mandatum, coniugibus datum, iure debito custodire debere. In cuius obseruantiae mandato, ideo edam excepta est causa fornicationis, ut intelligatur quia innocens nocentem dimittere potest causa fornicationis’: ibid. 1460D.
90 Ibid. 1461B.
91 Ibid. 1461; and 1469B-C, where the Council of Elvira is cited to show how serious is the danger of contamination of the husband by his wife's adultery: he is inuolutus.
92 ‘Id si quis antistes praeter regulam proprio fieri iuberet arbitrio, rem procul dubio nefandam praeciperet, ad ueritatem Euangelii minime incederet, imo a semita praedicationis cxccdcret’: ibid. 1461.
93 ‘Ea plane separatio non est attribuenda uirtuti humanae, sed iudicio Dei, ubi uiolenter nemo diuortium molitur, sed consilium Dei’: ibid. 1461C.
94 ‘Illud quippe diuina comparatum esse comprobatur, quod decreto Patrum uigore ecclesiasticae disciplinae, annosa consuetudine sancitum esse dignoscitur; nec quemquam perturbet si per Deum coniuncti a Deo dicantur separari, quasi Deo contra se sentiente, et consilii sui immutabilitatem mutabiliter agente’: ibid. 1461C–D.
95 Ibid. 1461D.
96 ‘Et prima quidem admonitio non intentat si quis post earn non eat, sed praemium sibi acquiesccntibus pollicetur… Indulgentia uero (quantum nobis uidetur) quia meliora non eligit, remedium quidem habet, non praemium; sed ab hoc si quis declinaucrit, meretur exitialc iudicium’: Ivo, Preface, PL clxi. 49.
97 Ibid. 49.
98 Duby, Le Chevalier, tells the story and interprets it as an episode in the growth of clerical control of values; cf. Daudet, P., L'Etablissement de ta compétence de l'Église en matière de divorce et consanguinité, Paris 1941, 56ff.; and Moule, Entry into Marriage, 1–47.Google Scholar
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100 Ibid. 1463–4.
101 There is a retrospective rationality in Ernulf: he considers the past legislation of the Church to have been inspired by reason, ‘Qua ergo facilitate, qua fronte mandatum dominicum, intelleetu perspicuum, nemini ambiguum, ab hominibus est derogatum, aliud subrogatum? aut cuv ab Ecclesiae memorata exceptio est accepta, quac a Domino non est accepta? cur, inquam, nisi quia mandata Dei probe intellexerunt. pie susceperunt, sibi id licere limiter posse cognoucrunt, salua rcucrcntia canonicarum Scripturarum?’: ibid. 1463C. And he describes Paul as ‘apostolica prudentia prudenter intelligens’: ibid. 1459.
102 Ibid. 1465D.
103 A number of these problems are discussed by Alexander Murray. Reason and Society in the Middle Ages. Oxford 1978.
104 Cur Dem homo I/viii. Opera ii. 59; cf. Proslogion viii-xi. Opera i. 106–10.
105 Ernulf, De incestis, PL clxiii. 1464B.
106 Ibid. 1468C.
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119 Ibid. 1468D, quoting Augustine, De sermone Domini in monte, xii. 36, PL xxxiv. 1247; cf. Col. iii. 5; Eph. v. 5; and the use in Hosea of adultery as a general metaphor for lack of faith.
120 Ernulf. De incestis, PL clxiii. 1470.
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