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Papacy and Law in the Gregorian Revolution: The Canonistic Work of Anselm of Lucca »

Authors: Kathleen G. Cushing
ISBN-13: 9780198207245, ISBN-10: 0198207247
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: November 1998
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Kathleen G. Cushing

University College, Oxford

Book Synopsis

This work explores the role of canon law in the ecclesiastical reform movement of the eleventh century, commonly known as the Gregorian Reform. Focusing on the Collectio canonum of Bishop Anselm of Lucca, it explores how the reformers came to value and employ law as a means of achieving desired ends in a time of social upheaval and revolution.

	List of Tables
	Abbreviations
	Introduction	1
Pt. I	Papacy and Law on the Eve of the Gregorian Revolution	9
Pt. II	A Canonist in the Age of Reform	41
1	Anselm of Lucca: A Sainted Gregorian Bishop	43
2	Anselm and His Canonical Sources	64
1	Anselm and The 'Reform' Collections: New Sources and New Methods	64
2	Anselm and the Pseudo-Isidore	72
3	Anselm and the 74T	78
4	Some Other Genuine and Patristic Sources	86
5	Anselm and Deusdedit	95
	Conclusion	102
3	Roman Primacy and the Legal Vindication of Reform	103
4	Anselm and Coercion: A Legal Form of Persuasion	122
	Conclusion: A Canonist of Reform	142
App. I	Anselm's Canonical Sources: Some Documentary Evidence	147
Ia	Anselm's Transmission of Independent Ps.Isidorian Texts	147
Ib	Anselm's Transmission of Ps.Isidorian Texts from the 74T	157
Ic	Anselm's Transmission of Gelasian Texts from the 74T	169
Id	Anselm and the Swabian Appendix	175
App. II	Abridged Edition of Books XII and XIII of the Collectio canonum of Anselm of Lucca from Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS Vat. Lat. 1363	179
	Bibliography	225
	Index	241