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This book considers the role of popes and bishops in the development of the law of the Church between 1120 and 1234. Although historians have traditionally seen the popes as the driving force behind the legal transformation of the Church in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the primary argument of this book is that the functioning of the process of consultation and appeal reveals a different picture: not of a relentless papal machine but of a constant dialogue between diocesan bishops and the papal Curia.

Bishops have always played a central role in the making and enforcement of the law of the Church, and none more so than the bishop of Rome. From convening and presiding over church councils to applying canon law in church courts, popes and bishops have exercised a decisive influence on the history of that law.

This book, a selection of Anne J. Duggan’s most significant studies on the history of canon law, highlights the interactive role of popes and bishops, and other prelates, in the development of ecclesiastical law and practice between 1120 and 1234. This emphasis directly challenges the pervasive influence of the concept of ‘papal monarchy’, in which popes, and not diocesan bishops and their legal advisers, have been seen as the driving force behind the legal transformation of the Latin Church in the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. Contrary to the argument that the emergence of the papacy as the primary judicial and legislative authority in the Latin Church was the result of a deliberate programme of papal aggrandizement, the principal argument of this book is that the processes of consultation and appeal reveal a different picture: not of a relentless papal machine but of a constant dialogue between diocesan bishops and the papal Curia, in which the ‘papal machine’ evolved to meet the demand.

Author) Anne J. Duggan is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History and Fellow of King’s College London;

(Editor) T.R. Baker (D.Phil, Oxford, 2017) is a private scholar living in the Diocese of Orange. He is the editor of Law and Society in Later Medieval England and Ireland: Essays in Honour of Paul Brand (Routledge, 2018).

Table des matières :

Chapter 1: Jura sua unicuique tribuat: Innocent II and the advance of the learned laws
Chapter 2: ‘Justinian’s Laws, not the Lord’s’: Eugenius III and the learned laws
Chapter 3: Servus servorum Dei: Adrian IV’s contribution to canon law (1154-9)
Chapter 4: Alexander ille meus: The Papacy of Alexander III
Chapter 5: The Effect of Alexander III’s ‘Rules on the Formation of Marriage’ in Angevin England
Chapter 6: The Nature of Alexander III’s Contribution to Marriage Law, with special reference to Licet preter solitum
Chapter 7: Master of the Decretals: A Reassessment of Alexander III’s Contribution to Canon Law
Chapter 8: Making Law or Not? The Function of Papal Decretals in the Twelfth Century
Chapter 9: ‘Our Letters have not usually made law (legem facere) on such matters’ (Alexander III, 1169): a new look at the formation of the canon law of marriage in the twelfth century
Chapter 10: Manu Sollicitudinis: Celestine III and Canon Law
Chapter 11: De Consultationibus: the role of episcopal consultation in the shaping of canon law in the twelfth century
Chapter 12: The English Exile of Archbishop Øystein of Nidaros (1180-83)
Chapter 13: The Decretals of Archbishop Øystein of Trondheim (Nidaros)
Chapter 14: Eystein and the World of the Learned Law: with special reference to the Fragmentum Asloense: Oslo, Riksarkivet, latin fragment 152, 1–2

Informations pratiques :

Popes, Bishops, and the Progress of Canon Law, c.1120–1234, éd. A. J. Duggan et T. Baker, Turnhotu, Brepols, 2020 (Brepols Collected Essays in European Culture, 6). 506 p., 2 b/w ill., 14 b/w tables, 156 x 234 mm. ISBN: 978-2-503-58547-5. Prix : 135 euros.

Source : Brepols

Accès : ici

Les comptabilités médiévales en terres d’Empire : typologie et perspectives de recherche (XIIIe-XVe siècle), numéro de la revue Comptabilités, 13, 2020 : https://journals.openedition.org

Table des matières :

Christelle Balouzat-Loubet – Les comptabilités médiévales en terres d’Empire : typologie et perspectives de recherche (XIIIe-XVe s.)
Gaël Chenard – Que compte le prince : réflexions sur le rôle de la comptabilité dans la gestion domaniale sous Louis IX
Laurence Buchholzer – Les comptabilités municipales en terres d’Empire. Un bilan historiographique
Michel Pauly – Les comptes de la baumaîtrie de la ville de Luxembourg (1388-1500). État des lieux et perspectives de recherches
Mylène Didiot Parisot – Metz une ville libre fortifiée : l’apport de l’étude des comptes des Gouverneurs des Murs (1463-1543)
Sylvie Bépoix – Les comptabilités du comté de Bourgogne aux xive et xve siècles : état des recherches et perspectives
Vianney Muller – Des comptabilités seigneuriales en terres d’Empire : l’administration financière du lignage de Neufchâtel au XVe siècle
Amandine Le Roux – Les comptabilités collectorales en terres d’empire, des ressources documentaires pour l’étude des pratiques de l’écrit, d’une histoire institutionnelle et culturelle de la fiscalité pontificale

Présentation commentée d’une source comptable :

Marion Chevallot et Véronique Beaulande-Barraud – La comptabilité du prieuré de Saint-Gond-en-Oyes (1538-1542)
Marion Chevallot – Compte du prieuré de Saint-Gond, juin 1538 – juin 1539

Source : Comptabilité(s)

Polygyny, in Europe? The grand narrative of Western history is the development of monogamous marriage, culminating in the central Middle Ages. Other kinds of relationships have often, perhaps too lightly, been dismissed as ‘just lust’. In this book, Jan Rüdiger investigates the plurality of man-woman relationships in medieval Scandinavia and analyses the social and political ‘uses’ of elite polygyny.

By way of comparison the findings from the North are then applied to England, France, and the Iberian Peninsula, in order to propose a new overall image of elite polygyny, including marriage, in the medieval West.

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Informations pratiques :

Jan Rüdiger, All the King’s Women: Polygyny and Politics in Europe, 900–1250, Boston – Leyde, 2020. XII + 452 pp. ISBN : 978-90-04-43457-8. Prix : 125 euros.

Source : Brill

Au milieu du XII^e siècle, de nouvelles techniques de divination apparaissent en Occident, dont l’une connaîtra un succès éclatant : c’est la chiromancie. Comme pour d’autres pratiques divinatoires utilisées au Moyen Age, c’est la cour anglo-normande qui était un des principaux carrefours de sa diffusion.

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Informations pratiques :

Anglo-Norman Chiromancies, dir. Tony Hunt et Stefano Rapisarda, Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2020 (Textes littéraires du Moyen Âge, n° 57 / Divinatoria, n° 7). 103 p. ISBN : 978-2-406-09614-6. Prix : 22 euros.

Source : Classiques Garnier

Cet ouvrage vise à éclairer les mécanismes qui permirent aux lettres françaises de vivre la transition du Moyen Âge à la première Modernité. Il envisage tour à tour les conditions du glissement de ces textes vers l’imprimé et l’apport des imprimés anciens quant à l’élaboration des éditions modernes.

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Informations pratiques :

Les Lettres médiévales à l’aube de l’ère typographique, sous la direction de Renaud Adam, Jean Devaux, Nadine Henrard, Matthieu Marchal et Alexandra Velissariou, Paris, Classiques Garnier (Rencontres, 451), 2020. 349 p. ISBN : 978-2-406-09873-7. Prix : 36 euros.

Source : Classiques Garnier