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Law in a Culture of Theology: The Use of Canon Law by Parisian Theologians, ca. 1120-ca. 1220 considers the study of law within its intellectual environment.
List of contents
Introduction
1. Setting the Stage: Sharing and Producing Legal Collections in Northern France, ca. 1050-ca. 1130
2. Twelfth-Century Paris Theologians and their Engagement with Legal Knowledge
3. Hugh of St. Victor, Peter Lombard, and Northern French Canonical Collections: Intellectual Interplay on Marriage at the Dawn of the University of Paris
4. Peter the Chanter: Using Excommunication to Teach the Pragmatics of Pastoral Care
5. Robert of Courçon: Administering Crusading Activity and the Fight Against Heresy
6. Robert of Flamborough:
Penitentiarius to the Students of Paris and Homicide
7. Thomas of Chobham: The Deadly Sin of Greed
Conclusion
About the author
Melodie H. Eichbauer is Professor of Medieval History at Florida Gulf Coast University, U.S.A. Her research focuses on the dissemination of legal knowledge; the interpretation of law; and the ways in which social, political, and intellectual developments and trends shaped both between c.1000 and c.1500. She authored the second edition of
Medieval Canon Law, an expanded and revised version of the first edition by James A. Brundage (2023). She is the editor of
A Cultural History of Genocide,
Vol. 2: The Middle Ages (2021), the co-editor with Danica Summerlin of
The Use of Canon Law in Ecclesiastical Administration, 1000-1250 (2018); and the co-editor with Kenneth Pennington of
Law as Profession and Practice in Medieval Europe: Essays in Honor of James A. Brundage (2011).
Summary
Law in a Culture of Theology: The Use of Canon Law by Parisian Theologians, ca. 1120–ca. 1220 considers the study of law within its intellectual environment.
