Law, memory, and priestly office in Rome, c .500
Conrad Leyser
This essay sets the development of Christian thinking about law and clerical office in wider context discussion later Roman empire. It offers a reassessment work Dionysius Exiguus, well-known translator from Greek into Latin Acts fourth- fifth-century church councils, compiler papal decretals. The attempts to place Dionysius’ its immediate context, canonical activity, especially North Africa, more general political culture office-holding late polity. Central here is tension between bureaucratic regulation autocratic room for manoeuvre. did not attempt fully resolve this tension, though he contain it.
Early Medieval Europe