The profession and practice of medieval canon law
By: James A. Brundage.
Series: Variorum collected studies series -- CS 797; Collected studies -- CS797.
Publisher: Ashgate Variorum
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Aldershot; Burlington, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
Subjects: Canonists -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.; Canon law -- History -- To 1500.; Practice of law -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.; Law -- Study and teaching -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.; Legal_History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: value: Preface; value: The legal profession and legal ethics. The rise of professional canonists and development of the Ius Commune ; The ethics of the legal profession: medieval canonists and their clients ; The ethics of advocacy: confidentiality and conflict of interest in medieval canon law ; The calumny oath and ethical ideals of canonical advocates ; Entry to the ecclesiastical bar at Ely in the 14th century: the oath of admission ; The monk as lawyer; value: Legal education and universities. Teaching canon law ; Universities and the 'Ius Commune' in medieval Europe ; The canon law curriculum in medieval Cambridge ; The Cambridge faculty of canon law and the ecclesiastical courts of Ely ; From classroom to courtroom: Parisian canonists and their careers; value: Fees, costs and legal practice. The profits of the law: legal fees of university-trained advocates ; Taxation of costs in medieval canonical courts ; Legal aid for the poor and the professionalization of law in the Middle Ages ; Contingent fees and the Ius Commune ; The bar of the Ely consistory court in the 14th century: advocates, proctors, and others ; Latin jurists in the Levant: the legal elite of the crusader states ; The lawyers of the military orders ; Addenda et corrigenda; value: Indexes.