Beyond the Compilation: Technologies of Power and Administration in Post-Gratian Canon Law
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Iuris Canonici Medii Aevi Consociatio (ICMAC), the International Society of Medieval Canon Law
Organizer Name
Edward A. Reno III
Organizer Affiliation
Adelphi Univ.
Presider Name
Melodie H. Eichbauer
Presider Affiliation
Florida Gulf Coast Univ.
Paper Title 1
From Merus Minister to Iudex Delegatus: The Development of Thirteenth-Century Canonistic Doctrine on the Executors of Papal Provisions
Presenter 1 Name
Kerstin Hitzbleck
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Univ. Bern
Paper Title 2
Decretists and "Enormity": The Formation of a New Category in Canonical Law, ca. 1150-ca. 1190
Presenter 2 Name
Julien Théry
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Univ. de Montpellier III-Paul Valéry
Paper Title 3
Categories of Coercion: The Administrative Framework for Heresy and Adultery Legislation under Pope Gregory IX
Presenter 3 Name
Edward A. Reno III
Start Date
11-5-2013 10:00 AM
Session Location
Schneider 1275
Description
Recent research on the Church in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries has suggested a more dynamic evolution of papal authority, and its projection through decretal law, as pushed by centripetal demands from the “periphery,” as much as by outward pressure from the center. Yet the administrative mechanisms that produced this law have often been treated separately or taken for granted in the historiography. The proposed session will invite papers that seek to embed post-Gratian decretal law within the systems that gave rise to it – the bureaucracies of the Roman and episcopal curiae, the operations of judges delegate, and the law faculties charged with commenting on the law – examining how the technology of written administration and judicial oversight embodied, amplified and/or resisted the exercise of authority within the Church.
Edward A. Reno III
Beyond the Compilation: Technologies of Power and Administration in Post-Gratian Canon Law
Schneider 1275
Recent research on the Church in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries has suggested a more dynamic evolution of papal authority, and its projection through decretal law, as pushed by centripetal demands from the “periphery,” as much as by outward pressure from the center. Yet the administrative mechanisms that produced this law have often been treated separately or taken for granted in the historiography. The proposed session will invite papers that seek to embed post-Gratian decretal law within the systems that gave rise to it – the bureaucracies of the Roman and episcopal curiae, the operations of judges delegate, and the law faculties charged with commenting on the law – examining how the technology of written administration and judicial oversight embodied, amplified and/or resisted the exercise of authority within the Church.
Edward A. Reno III