The Church and the Law

Table of Contents

Preface
List of contributors
List of abbreviations
List of illustrations
Introduction Rosamond McKitterick
1. The Church and the Law in the Early Middle Ages (Presidential Address) Rosamond McKitterick
2. 'Cherchez la femme!' Heresy and Law in Late Antiquity Caroline Humfress
3. God's Judgement in Carolingian Law and History Writing (President's Prize) Robert A. H. Evans
4. The Political Background to the Establishment of the Slavic Nomocanon in the Thirteenth Century Marija Koprivica
5. General Excommunications of Unknown Malefactors: Conscience, Community and Investigations in England, c.1150–1350 Felicity Hill
6. The Procedure and Practice of Witness Testimony in English Ecclesiastical Courts, c.1193–1300 Sarah White
7. The Bishops and the Deposition of Edward II Samuel Lane
8. Kings' Courts and Bishops' Administrations in Fourteenth-Century England: A Study in Cooperation Alison K. McHardy
9. Arbitration, Delegation, Conservation: Marginalized Mechanisms for Dispute Resolution in the Pre-Reformation English Church R. N. Swanson
10. Perjury in Early Tudor England Paul Cavill
11. Conscience and the King's Household Clergy in the Early Tudor Court of Requests Laura Flannigan
12. Restoration of Deprived Clergy during the 1559 Royal Visitation of the Eastern Dioceses Ralph Houlbrooke
13. Adiaphora, Luther and the Material Culture of Worship Andrew Spicer
14. A Godly Law? Bulstrode Whitelocke, Puritanism and the Common Law in Seventeenth-Century England Jacqueline Rose
15. 'Very knaves besides': Catholic Print and the Enforcers of the 1662 Licensing Act in Restoration England Chelsea Reutcke
16. Protestant Dissent and the Law: Enforcement and Persecution, 1662–72 David L. Wykes
17. The House of Lords and Religious Toleration in Scotland: James Greenshields's Appeal, 1709–11 Ben Rogers
18. Toleration and Repression: German States, the Law and the 'Sects' in the long Nineteenth Century Manfred Henke
19. The Social and Legal Reception of Illegitimate Births in the Gurk Valley, Austria, 1868–1945 Catherine Sumnall
20. Keeping up with the Chinese: Constituting and Reconstituting the Anglican Church in South China, 1897–1951 Tim Yung
21. The Church of England and the Legislative Reforms of 1828–32: Revolution or Adjustment? Nicholas Dixon
22. The Decline of the Clerical Magistracy in the Nineteenth-Century English Midlands John W. B. Tomlinson
23. Debating the Legal Status of the Ornaments Rubric: Ritualism and Royal Commissions in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century England (Kennedy Prize) Dan D. Cruickshank
24. 'The day of compromise is past': The Oxford Free Churches and 'Passive Resistance' to the 1902 Education Act Martin Wellings
25. The Chancellors' Dilemma: The Impact of the First World War on Faculty Jurisdiction Anne C. Brook
26. Freedom of Religion and the Legal Status of Churches: A Case Study from the Serbian Constitutional Court Tijana Surlan
27. History, Sacred History and Law at the Intersection of Law, Religion and History Peter Edge.