Canon Law and the Letters of Ivo of Chartres

Informationen zum Autor Christof Rolker is research fellow of the Kulturwissenschaftliches Kolleg Konstanz. Klappentext Major new study of Ivo of Chartres, providing a new interpretation of the authorship of works attributed to him. Zusammenfassung A major new study of Ivo of Chartres! his works and his role in the intellectual! religious and political culture of medieval Europe. It provides a new interpretation of the authorship of canon law collections attributed to Ivo! revealing that he did not compile the Panormia! contrary to current assumptions. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Ivo of Chartres - 'life and letters'?; 2. Canon law before Ivo; 3. Collections known to or compiled by Ivo; 4. The canon law in Ivo's correspondence; 5. Hierarchies of authority: Ivo's views on divine law and the ecclesiastical hierarchy; 6. The laws of marriage: 'quod et natura disposuit, et lex tam ecclesiastica quam mundana firmavit'; 7. Ivo's Decretum and the Panormia: character, receptions, authorship; 8. Ivo's pastoral canon law and his place in legal history; A concordance table for the quotations in Ivo's letters; Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Christof Rolker, Christof (Universitat Konstanz Rolker
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.01.2010
• EAN: 9780521766821
• ISBN: 978-0-521-76682-1
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval; Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series; Cambridge Studies in Medieval
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries