Canon Law, Careers and Conquest
Jörg Peltzer
This book is a study of the politics episcopal elections in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Normandy Greater Anjou. was crucial period development canon law Jörg Peltzer offers first analysis to bring together legal theory practice, local custom, politics. He explores electoral theories examines each election context, offering insights into varying balance royal, papal regional baronial power various career paths leading an see. shows how different systems patronage worked, what extent they were vehicles social mobility, aristocratic families structured. By comparing practices Anjou before after Capetian conquest significantly enhances our understanding practice law, Anjou, high at Angevin courts.