{"title":"Transmissibility of Delictual Claims","authors":"H. Dondorp","doi":"10.1353/BMC.2016.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/BMC.2016.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction: Three questions In his magisterial survey of the law of obligations Reinhard Zimmermann writes that ‘the canonists have always recognized the passive transmissibility of delictual claims’. In elucidation he quotes Henry of Susa’s (Hostiensis) lecture on the Liber extra, completed about 1270: ‘According to canon law the heir is liable as a consequence of the deceased’s wrong, even if proceedings against him had not reached the stage of joinder of issue . . . and the crime does not benefit the heir’. The text, he recites, raises the first question. Have the canonists always recognized the passive transmissibility of delictual claims? For the text seems unsupportive. Note the different perspective. Zimmermann argues that a wronged person could bring a delictual claim against the wrongdoer’s heirs. Hostiensis wrote that the heirs are liable as a consequence of a wrong, even though the culprit died before the joinder of issue, and despite the fact that they are not enriched by the wrong. Hostiensis thus contrasted canon law with the Roman rule as stated in Codex 4.17.1. This constitution of emperors Diocletian and Maximian, promulgated","PeriodicalId":40554,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law-New Series","volume":"33 1","pages":"145 - 184"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2017-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/BMC.2016.0006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46132155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond the Penitentials: Early Medieval Discourse on Penance","authors":"A. Firey","doi":"10.1353/bmc.2016.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bmc.2016.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Sometimes the most obvious questions are the hardest ones to answer. For historians of early medieval confession and penance, one of the greatest puzzles has been the cultural context of the penitentials that have dominated, as essential sources, most discussions of early medieval penitential traditions. While there is excellent scholarship on the question of their institutional context— that is, whether they should be located in monastic, parochial, or sacramental settings (or overlapping and evolving contexts of this type)—there is still much work to be done on other, contemporary sources that might help us understand more fully the breadth and depth of penitential culture in the early Middle Ages. This paper explores three ideas: how sources other than the early medieval penitentials are, in fact, necessary to understanding early medieval penance; how, for example, the Synonyma of Isidore of Seville illuminate early medieval penitential discourse; how the imprint of the Synonyma as a penitential and pedagogical text is visible in glosses in a manuscript (Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Reg. lat. 849) of a Carolingian prose treatise on penance. Since the nineteenth century, the sources most frequently consulted as evidence for early medieval practices of penance and confession have been the penitentials. These texts are concise descriptions of specific sins, with a corresponding prescription of specific penances, or ‘remedies’ for each of those sins. Their descriptions of sins includes such offences as losing a consecrated","PeriodicalId":40554,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law-New Series","volume":"33 1","pages":"1 - 12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2017-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/bmc.2016.0001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44096793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La suma Quoniam in omnibus y las primeras summae de la Escuela de Bolonia","authors":"J. Viejo-Ximénez","doi":"10.1353/BMC.2016.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/BMC.2016.0003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40554,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law-New Series","volume":"33 1","pages":"27 - 68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2017-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/BMC.2016.0003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43519597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Commentaries on the Tridentine Decrees in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: The First Remarks on a Category of 'Prohibited' Works","authors":"Lorenzo Sinisi","doi":"10.1353/BMC.2016.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/BMC.2016.0008","url":null,"abstract":"The Canones et decreta of the Council of Trent were first officially published in Rome by Paolo Manuzio in March, 1564. They undoubtedly constituted a text of primary reference and played a central role within the framework of sources of canon law throughout the long period that extended from their publication to the creation of the first Codex iuris canonici almost a century ago. This set of laws – particularly those of a disciplinary character, which were, for the first time, clearly separated from those of a dogmatic nature – was certainly not intended to overturn the system inherited from the mediaeval period, the essential basis of which was to be found in the collections of the Corpus iuris canonici. Nevertheless, it did not fail to innovate numerous points (over 200 according to a census made in the second half of the 18th century) of the law encompassed within those same collections. Thus, it soon came to constitute a revision of and a complement to them, becoming indispensable to teaching, judicial practice and the care of souls.","PeriodicalId":40554,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law-New Series","volume":"33 1","pages":"209 - 228"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2017-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/BMC.2016.0008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43517320","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Note on the Authorship of the Collectio Seguntina","authors":"Kyle Lincoln","doi":"10.1353/BMC.2016.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/BMC.2016.0005","url":null,"abstract":"The history of Sigüenza’s manuscript, Archivo Catedralicio 10, is, mostly, a mystery. Since it was brought to international scholarly attention by Gérard Fransen and studied by Walther Holtzmann, scholarly consensus has usually mentioned the text only as another in a long list of local appendices to the Quinque compilationes antiquae, in this case the Compilatio prima, noting that the text appears to have several decretals copied from the now-lost registers of Clement III or Celestine III. To date, however, the compiler of the 121 entries that comprise the Collectio Seguntina has yet to be identified. This study proposes that Rodrigo de Finojosa, bishop of Sigüenza from 1192-1218, should be identified as the most likely compiler of the collection, based both on the historical context of the compilation and on the contents of the Seguntina itself. In doing so, it also adds the name of yet another bishop to the roll call of prelates whose canon law literacy was on the rise near the end of the long twelfth century, further underscoring the importance of canon law to the history of the medieval church. The connection between Rodrigo de Finojosa and the Collectio Seguntina is primarily supported by the decretal letters copied into the collection. Of the 116 items enumerated by Holtzmann, nine","PeriodicalId":40554,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law-New Series","volume":"33 1","pages":"137 - 144"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2017-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/BMC.2016.0005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47691944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Alle origini dell'università di Bologna: L'insegnamento di Irnerio","authors":"A. Padovani","doi":"10.1353/BMC.2016.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/BMC.2016.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Le origini dello Studium di Bologna sono così riferite da Odofredo (†1265), il garrulo maestro che amava inframmezzare le lunghe lezioni sui testi di diritto romano con gustose narrazioni: Or signori, dominus Yrnerius fuit apud nos lucerna iuris, fuit enim primus, qui docuit iura in civitate ista. Primo cepit studium esse in civitate ista in artibus, et cum studium esset destructum Rome, libri legales fuerunt deportati ad civitatem Ravenne et de Ravenna ad civitatem istam. De hoc studebantur in artibus libri legales, qui a civitate Ravenne fuerunt portati ad civitatem istam. Quidam dominus Pepo cepit auctoritate sua legere in legibus, tamen quicquid fuerit de scientia sua nullius nominis fuit. Dominus Irnerius docebat in civitate ista in artibus, cepit per se studere in libris nostris, et studendo cepit velle docere in legibus. Et ipse fuit maximi nominis et fuit primus illuminator scientie nostre, unde ipsum lucernam iuris nuncupamus. [Or signori, Irnerio fu tra noi la lucerna del diritto, fu il primo ad avere insegnato in questa città. Una volta, a Bologna, esisteva uno studio di arti liberali. Quando lo Studium di diritto fu distrutto a Roma, i libri legali furono portati a Ravenna e poi a Bologna. Così i libri legali finirono per essere studiati nella scuola di arti liberali. Pepo cominciò con la sua autorità ad insegnare diritto ma, qualunque fosse la sua scienza, non ebbe alcuna fama. Irnerio insegnava arti liberali a Bologna quando vi furono trasferiti i libri legali. Cominciò a studiare per conto suo nei nostri testi, conseguì una grandissima fama e fu la","PeriodicalId":40554,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law-New Series","volume":"33 1","pages":"13 - 25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2017-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/BMC.2016.0002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41731824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stephan Kuttners's last Discovery on Walter of Coutances: A Commemoration 110 Years after Kuttner's Birthday","authors":"P. Landau","doi":"10.1353/BMC.2016.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/BMC.2016.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Stephan Kuttner (†1996) established the Institute of Medieval Canon Law at The Catholic University of America in 1955. He moved it to Yale University in 1964 and then to the University of California, Berkeley in 1969. It then was moved to Munich for almost twenty years and renamed the Stephan Kuttner Institute of Medieval Canon Law. In 2016 the Institute was transferred to Yale University under the direction of Anders Winroth. Kuttner was also the founder of this journal in 1971. Ludwig Schmugge has aptly dubbed him the ‘Pope’ of canon law studies during the twentieth century. He was very active in his scholarly research until the final years of his life. His last publication was probably an essay on the Stroma of the canonist Rolandus of Bologna published in 1990. Working on a revised edition of his collection of articles with the title Gratian and the Schools of Law 1140-1234 I used Kuttner’s personal copy of this book with many additions of the author that he made in the margins after 1983. Studying these notes I found a typed text among his ‘Retractationes’ for p. 321 of his essay ‘Anglo-Norman Canonists of the Twelfth Century’ referring to bishop Walter of Lincoln. This text runs like this. Walter bishop of Lincoln: This was Walter of Coutances (de Constantiis), archdeacon of Oxford 1175-82, bishop of Lincoln 1183, archbishop of Rouen from 1184 or 1185, who died in 1207. He addressed to the bishop of Exeter ‘super negociis iuris librum unum’, see John Bale ‘Index Britanniae scriptorum’, ed. R. L. Poole (Oxford 1902) 103. [A second edition, by Poole and M. Bateson, was published in Cambridge 1990.] I shall give a fuller bibliography and discuss the possibility of other writings by Walther of Coutances in an article planned for a Festschrift to appear in 1994.","PeriodicalId":40554,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law-New Series","volume":"33 1","pages":"229 - 230"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2017-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/BMC.2016.0009","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46904945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La diffusion de la collection de Gilbert l'Anglais dans la France du Nord","authors":"A. Lefebvre-Teillard","doi":"10.1353/bmc.2016.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/bmc.2016.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Dans l’enseignement qu’ils délivraient à Paris durant les premières années du XIIIe siècle, Petrus Brito et ses élèves faisaient une utilisation fréquente de la collection de Gilbert l’Anglais. C’est ce qui m’a incitée à m’intéresser de plus près à la diffusion de cette collection hors de Bologne. L’incitation était d’autant plus forte que deux des manuscrits de la collection de Gilbert qui nous ont été conservés, le manuscrit Lambeth Palace 105 et le manuscrit 1407-1409 de la Bibliothèque Royale de Bruxelles, contenaient également, comme j’ai pu antérieurement le démontrer, l’enseignement de ces maîtres parisiens sur la Compilatio prima. Etait-ce un pur hasard ? On sait combien au fil des siècles et des évènements, le hasard joue non seulement dans la conservation des manuscrits mais également dans le cheminement qui a conduit les ‘survivants’à leur destination actuelle. Si l’on ajoute à cela l’intervention des relieurs qui assemblent parfois des manuscrits de nature fort différente, mais pas forcément de provenance différente, on aperçoit toute la difficulté qu’il y a à retracer l’histoire d’un manuscrit. C’est pourquoi on ne la connaît bien souvent, et encore, que dans ses grandes étapes. Néanmoins il y avait là une ‘coïncidence’que je ne pouvais négliger. Elle m’a donc conduite à entreprendre cette étude sur la diffusion de la collection de Gilbert l’Anglais dans la partie septentrionale de la France. Seul ont été retenus, dans le cadre de cette recherche, les manuscrits ne contenant que la collection de Gilbert, à l’exclusion de ceux contenant à la fois celles de Gilbert et d’Alain l’Anglais.","PeriodicalId":40554,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law-New Series","volume":"33 1","pages":"135 - 69"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2017-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/bmc.2016.0004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47214121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}