Canon Law and the Letters of Ivo of Chartres

ISBN-13: 9780521766821 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 402 str.

Christof Rolker

Opis

Ivo of Chartres was one of the most learned scholars of his time, a powerful bishop and a major figure in the so-called 'Investiture Contest'. Christof Rolker here offers a major new study of Ivo, his works and the role he played in the intellectual, religious and political culture of medieval Europe around 1100 AD. Comparing Ivo s extensive correspondence to the contemporary canon law collections attributed to him, Dr Rolker provides a new interpretation of their authorship. Contrary to current assumptions, he reveals that Ivo did not compile the Panormia, showing that its compiler worked in a distinctly different mental framework from Ivo. These findings call for a reassessment of the relationship between Church reform and scholasticism and shed new light on Ivo as both a scholar and bishop."

Recenzje

'The author presents a painstaking and detailed study of the sources and the inter-relationship of the principal works attributed to Ivo: the Tripartita, Decretum, Panormia and Prologus. … Rolker does clearly give the state of the question on Ivo's canonical works, provides a fuller context for these works, and shines a brighter light on these sources, and it is in just this way that Ivo's letters prove most valuable.' Becket Soule, Ecclesiastical Law Journal

Spis treści

1. Ivo of Chartres - 'life and letters'?; 2. Canon law before Ivo; 3. Collections known to or compiled by Ivo; 4. The canon law in Ivo's correspondence; 5. Hierarchies of authority: Ivo's views on divine law and the ecclesiastical hierarchy; 6. The laws of marriage: 'quod et natura disposuit, et lex tam ecclesiastica quam mundana firmavit'; 7. Ivo's Decretum and the Panormia: character, receptions, authorship; 8. Ivo's pastoral canon law and his place in legal history; A concordance table for the quotations in Ivo's letters; Bibliography.