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Shaping church law around the year 1000 : the Decretum of Burchard of Worms / Greta Austin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Austin, Greta.
- Series:
- Church, faith, and culture in the Medieval West
- Church, faith and culture in the Medieval West
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Canon law--History--Sources.
- Canon law.
- Catholic Church--History--Sources.
- Catholic Church.
- History.
- Genre:
- Sources.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 344 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2009]
- Contents:
- The methodology of this study
- The Decretum
- The Decretum in the context of other medieval canon law books
- Who was Burchard of Worms?
- Finding Burchard's vision of canon law in the preface and the Decretum canons on jurisprudence
- The presentation of the Decretum's canons
- The authority of the Decretum's canons
- Eliminating conflicts between canons
- Presenting a comprehensive vision of the church's law
- The result: the substantive law of decretum books 6, 10, 11 and 12
- Making sense of burchard's textual alterations
- Theology and canon law around the year 1000.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-328) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Louis A. Duhring Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780754650911
- 075465091X
- OCLC:
- 149166060
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