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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      13 January 2022
      27 January 2022
      ISBN:
      9781139177221
      9781107025042
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139177221
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.11kg, 638 Pages
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      • Collections:
      Cambridge Histories - Religion, Cambridge Histories - British & European History
      Subjects:
      Legal History, Area Studies, European History 1000-1450, British History: General Interest, Law, History, European Studies
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    Canon law touched nearly every aspect of medieval society, including many issues we now think of as purely secular. It regulated marriages, oaths, usury, sorcery, heresy, university life, penance, just war, court procedure, and Christian relations with religious minorities. Canon law also regulated the clergy and the Church, one of the most important institutions in the Middle Ages. This Cambridge History offers a comprehensive survey of canon law, both chronologically and thematically. Written by an international team of scholars, it explores, in non-technical language, how it operated in the daily life of people and in the great political events of the time. The volume demonstrates that medieval canon law holds a unique position in the legal history of Europe. Indeed, the influence of medieval canon law, which was at the forefront of introducing and defining concepts such as 'equity,' 'rationality,' 'office,' and 'positive law,' has been enormous, long-lasting, and remarkably diverse.

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    ‘… will do much to orient medieval and legal historians to some of the particularities of the innovative, dynamic, and influential legal system formed over time in the church of the Middle Ages.’

    Atria A. Larson Source: Speculum

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