Medieval Canon Law and Social Issues

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Stephan Kuttner Institute of Medieval Canon Law

Organizer Name

Mary E. Sommar

Organizer Affiliation

Millersville Univ. of Pennsylvania

Presider Name

Mary E. Sommar

Paper Title 1

Canon Law and the Social History of Clerical Space: Cemeteries as Contested Ground, 1150-1250

Presenter 1 Name

Anthony Perron

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Loyola Marymount Univ.

Paper Title 2

Conditions of Marriage Formation and Canon Law in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

Presenter 2 Name

Rusne Juozapaitiene (Karrer Travel Award Winner)

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Vilniaus Univ.

Paper Title 3

Clandestine Marriage and the Church: King Horn after Lateran IV

Presenter 3 Name

Chelsea Lambert Skalak

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Univ. of Virginia

Paper Title 4

Leper's Wedding (Twelfth-Fourteenth Century)

Presenter 4 Name

Sarah Bakkali-Hassani

Presenter 4 Affiliation

Univ. de Paris-Pantheon-Assas

Paper Title 5

What the Crapula: Drunkenness in Medieval Confessional Literature

Presenter 5 Name

Janice Gunther

Presenter 5 Affiliation

Univ. of Notre Dame

Start Date

14-5-2015 10:00 AM

Session Location

Bernhard 208

Description

Virtually no area of medieval society was untouched by ecclesiastical law. Whether it was the church's interest in certain life situations, or the interests of ecclesiastical personnel or institutions, canon law was involved in every corner of life. This session looks at drunkenness, marriage, and cemeteries to see how church law and secular society existed in parallel. or sometimes at cross purposes.

Mary E. Sommar