Monuments of endlesse labours : English canonists and their work, 1300-1900 / J.H. Baker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baker, John H. (John Hamilton)

Contributor:

Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canonists--England--Biography.

Canonists.

Canon law--Study and teaching.

History.

Canon law.

England.

Canon law--Study and teaching--England--History.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xx, 188 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; Rio Grande, Ohio : Hambledon Press, with the Ecclesiastical Law Society, 1998.

Summary:

"Monuments of Endlesse Labours" is an account of the evolution of a distinct tradition and literature of English canon law. The study and teaching began in England in the twelfth century, and during the thirteenth a profession of practising canonists arose. Their expertise was not confined to ecclesiastical matters in a narrow sense, but extended into such important fields as marriage and probate. Taking the work of individual canonists in turn, from William Paull and William Bateman in the fourteenth century to Stephen Lushington and Sir Robert Phillimore in the nineteenth, J.H. Baker assesses the various different contributions to this national tradition made by original thinkers, writers, compilers, editors and judges. The survival for so long of a distinct legal system parallel to the common law, which nevertheless touched in many vital respects the lives of everyone in England, makes the story of English ecclesiastical law an essential part of English legal history.

Notes:

"The essays here have been reprinted, with slight rearrangement and emendation, from a series entitled "Famous English canonists" which appeared in the Ecclesiastical Law Journal between 1988 and 1997"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

ISBN:

1852851678

OCLC:

37854453