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  • 1 - Transformations and Long-Term Explanations

  • D. L. d'Avray, University College London
  • Book:
    Papal Jurisprudence, 385–1234
    Published online:
    10 March 2022
    Print publication:
    17 March 2022, pp 3-20

  • Summary

    The chapter looks at period boundaries – c. 500, c. 1000 – and ways of transcending them. To position oneself on a boundary is one way, and another is to look for deep continuities. Here additional schemas have been proposed: the re-emergence of a half-submerged system with the recurrence of the conditions that gave rise to it originally, and, above all, the evolution of a sequence of communications (as opposed to a constant idea) like a conversation, from its origin through its twists and turns over many centuries. The history of the first papal jurisprudence’s reception over time can be a ‘part for the whole’, a synecdoche for the changes in history of Western Christianity. Tracing its reception helps to subvert the apartheid of periodization.