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- The Cambridge History of Medieval Canon Law
- The Cambridge History of Medieval Canon Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Medieval Canon Law: Introduction
- Part I The History of Medieval Canon Law
- 1 The Early Church
- 2 Early Medieval Canon Law
- 3 Canon Law in the Long Tenth Century, 900–1050
- 4 The Age of Reforms: Canon Law in the Century before Gratian
- 5 The Reinvention of Canon Law in the High Middle Ages
- 6 Canon Law in a Time of Renewal, 1130–1234
- 7 The Late Middle Ages: Four Remarks Regarding the Present State of Research
- 8 The Late Middle Ages: Sources
- 9 The Canon Law of the Eastern Churches
- Part II The Sources and Dissemination of Medieval Canon Law
- Part III Doctrine and Society
- Bibliography of Primary Sources
- Index
- References
8 - The Late Middle Ages: Sources
from Part I - The History of Medieval Canon Law
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 January 2022
- The Cambridge History of Medieval Canon Law
- The Cambridge History of Medieval Canon Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Medieval Canon Law: Introduction
- Part I The History of Medieval Canon Law
- 1 The Early Church
- 2 Early Medieval Canon Law
- 3 Canon Law in the Long Tenth Century, 900–1050
- 4 The Age of Reforms: Canon Law in the Century before Gratian
- 5 The Reinvention of Canon Law in the High Middle Ages
- 6 Canon Law in a Time of Renewal, 1130–1234
- 7 The Late Middle Ages: Four Remarks Regarding the Present State of Research
- 8 The Late Middle Ages: Sources
- 9 The Canon Law of the Eastern Churches
- Part II The Sources and Dissemination of Medieval Canon Law
- Part III Doctrine and Society
- Bibliography of Primary Sources
- Index
- References
Summary
The abundance of sources, the extremely broad range of subjects dealt with in late medieval canon law, and the still unsatisfactory and heterogeneous state of research suggest that a history of canon law in the late Middle Ages should be organized as a description of the surviving legal collections in chronological order. Such an approach not only provides a reliable foundation for future research, but also reflects the state of legal development that contemporaries had access to and illustrates the many contingencies that shaped the development of the legal books which constituted the official Corpus iuris canonici from 1582 to 1917.
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- The Cambridge History of Medieval Canon Law , pp. 122 - 141Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022