Church and Government in the Middle Ages: Essays presented to C. R. Cheney on his 70th Birthday and Edited by C. N. L. Brooke, D. E. Luscombe, G. H. Martin and Dorothy Owen

by Edited by C. N. L. Brooke , D. E. Luscombe , G. H. Martin , Dorothy Owen

• ISBN13: 9780521089296
• ISBN10: 0521089298
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-11-06
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The history of Church and government in England and on the continent of Europe between the eleventh and the early fourteenth centuries is the subject of this volume of essays by twelve historians including scholars as well known as C. N. L. Brooke, R. C. van Caenegem, R. Foreville, S. Kuttner and W. Ullmann. Each essay is concerned with a major historical text (such as Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain) or an important type of historical document (such as the writings of a famous civilian, Master Vacarius). The general theme of Church and government in the Middle Ages is illustrated through the eves of different types of officials - among them English royal justices, Norman bishops, and monastic archdeacons - as well of scholars and thinkers who also served the needs of government both lay and ecclesiastical - such as Gratian of Bologna and the hitherto neglected canon lawyer John Baconthorpe.

Table of Contents

Charter and Chronicle: the use of archive sources by Norman historians

The synod of the province of Rouen in the eleventh and twelfth centuries

Public prosecution of crime in twelfth-century

Geoffrey of Monmouth as a historian

Gratian and

Vacarius and the

William FitzStephen and his Life of

The Muniments of Ely

Monastic Archdeacons

The Lex divinitatis in the Bull Unam Sanctam of Pope Boniface VIII

John Baconthorpe as a Canonist

Walter Reynolds and Ecclesiastical Politics, 1313-1316: a Postscript to Councils & Synods, II

Bibliography of the writings of

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