<i>Readers, Texts and Compilers in the Earlier Middle Ages: Studies in Medieval Canon Law in Honour of Linda Fowler-Magerl</i> (review)
Jason Taliadoros
Reviewed by: Readers, Texts and Compilers in the Earlier Middle Ages: Studies Medieval Canon Law Honour of Linda Fowler-Magerl Jason Taliadoros Brett, Martin Kathleen G. Cushing, eds, (Church, Faith Culture West), Farnham, Ashgate, 2009; hardback; pp. xviii, 205; 6 b/w plates; R.R.P. £65.00; ISBN 9780754662358. Dr Fowler-Magerl, honorand this volume, has reinvigorated study pre-Gratian medieval canon law a manner similar to Anders Winroth’s path-breaking findings on authorship Decretum ‘Gratian’. Fowler-Magerl’s work judicial procedure literature, sources, transmission canonical collections (most notably her 1998 Kanones CD-ROM database), compilation, acquisition, such texts is obligatory reading for any serious incursion into these fields. The twelve contributors among foremost established emerging scholars field law, have appropriately honoured their dedicatee level scholarship insight that pervades festschrift. Roger Reynolds’s chapter considers inclusion Notitia Galliarum, popular widely disseminated text compiled late fourth or early fifth century, Salzburg liturgico-canonical collection ninth century. Noteworthy Reynolds modification latter reflect preoccupation with changing ecclesiological political circumstances Gaul. Implicit also significant interrelationship between liturgical period. Abigail Firey draws recent monograph (A Contrite Heart, Leiden, 2009) posit relationship different sort, penitential theology jurisprudence. analyses influence Christian thought eighth- ninth-century Carolingian It Firey’s contention jurists’ awareness innocence guilt as matter buried invisibly human heart resulted ‘domain activity’ being brought ‘ever nearer domain (p. 29), especially time coincided imperial expansion ongoing threat counter-insurgency. [End Page 177] Greta Austin compares two most important eleventh Burchard Worms Ivo Chartres’s Decretum, issue ‘authority’, specifically what makes binding. Austin’s challenges traditional orthodoxies eleventh-century ‘Gregorian reform movement’ privileging church over secular authority, since neither canonist ‘looked Roman Church definitively shaping orthodoxy’ 57). Her observations are noteworthy broader sweep legal history, one ‘hallmarks Western interpretation concern authority’ 58). Christof Rolker accepted views Gregorian reform, disputing claim Collection Seventy-Four Titles century was ‘first manual [Gregorian] reform’ 59). Rather, argues, consistent ‘monastic agenda. Several contributions point dangers ignoring interstitial sources defy strict categorization. Cushing’s phenomenon ‘intermediate collection’, non-extant compilations ‘whose existence can be posited link other collections’ 73), offers re-assessment collection: so-called Collectio canonum Barberiniana For use ‘offers window’ 81) canonistic activity central Italy twelfth Uta-Renate Blumenthal examines another intermediate source, Liber Terraconensis consider whether ‘friendship network’ existed regions surrounding Poitiers Bordeaux same way Ian Robinson had observed south Germany. She finds reformist tendencies, hence support Pope Gregory VII, both regions. Brett ‘additions’, namely ‘external interpolations, supplementary texts’ 137), were added manuscripts containing works attributed Chartres. Brett’s survey indicates, other...
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