Canon Law in the Long Tenth Century, 900–1050
Greta Austin
The tenth and early eleventh centuries often fall between the cracks of “Carolingian Renaissance” “Gregorian Reform” eleventh-century papal reform movements. Yet scholars are now paying closer attention to “long century,” c. 900–1020/50. This new research has undermined idea that Church law sank into a dark period. Canon law, in fact, may be more difficult describe this time than later periods, precisely because it took place on “horizontal” level, with many local users, rather unified under “vertical” monarch, as would later. was pluralistic senses. Many people used it: priest; abbots monks; bishop, both teaching administering episcopal courts; councils, sometimes popes emperors present. remarkable number canon manuscripts from period attests considerable interest law. Collections also continued copied high Middle Ages – which testifies significance achievements Viewed diachronically, built upon Carolingian legislation well institutions structures.
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