Medieval Canon Law and Society

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

Infant Mortality and the Emergency Baptism of Infants

Presenter 1 Name

Thomas Izbicki

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Rutgers Univ.

Paper Title 2

Leper's Wedding (Twelfth through Fourteenth Centuries)

Presenter 2 Name

Sarah Bakkali-Hassani

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. de Paris II-Pantheon-Assas

Paper Title 3

Hierarchizing Claims to Avoid Conflicts: Prerogatives in the Struggle for Ecclesiastical Benefices in the Late Middle Ages

Presenter 3 Name

Andreas Meyer

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Philipps-Univ. Marburg

Paper Title 4

Scandalous Elections in Medieval Canon Law

Presenter 4 Name

Raffaella Bianchi Riva

Presenter 4 Affiliation

Univ. degli Studi di Milano

Start Date

8-5-2014 7:30 PM

Session Location

Schneider 1325

Description

Whether it was the church's interest in certain sinful behaviors or the fact that ecclesiastical personnel or institutions were parties involved in a given situation, ecclesiastical or "canon" law found its way into every corner of society. Recently scholars of the canon law have begun to focus more attention on the social context in which the law was both framed and administered. This session looks at issues like infant mortality, divorce, misbehaving officials, and real estate transactions to explore how church law and secular society existed in parallel or, sometimes, at cross purposes.

Mary E. Sommar