Shaping church law around the year 1000
Subtitle: the Decretum of Burchard of Worms
By: by Greta Austin.
Series: Church, faith, and culture in the Medieval West
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754650911
Subjects: Canon law -- History -- Sources; Catholic Church -- History -- Sources
Genres: Sources.
Table of contents: title: The methodology of this study; title: The Decretum; title: The Decretum in the context of other medieval canon law books; title: Who was Burchard of Worms?; title: Finding Burchard's vision of canon law in the preface and the Decretum canons on jurisprudence; title: Burchard's editing priorities; title: The presentation of the Decretum's canons; title: The authority of the Decretum's canons; title: Eliminating conflicts between canons; title: Presenting a comprehensive vision of the church's law; title: The result of the editing priorities : the substantive law of decretum books 6, 10, 11 and 12; title: Implications; title: Making sense of burchard's textual alterations; title: Theology and canon law around the year 1000.