Making Laws for a Christian Society: The Hibernensis and the Beginnings of Church Law in Ireland and Britain

by Roy Flechner

Book Overview

This is the first comprehensive study of the contribution that texts from Britain and Ireland made to the development of canon law in early medieval Europe. The book concentrates on a group of insular texts of church law-chief among them the Irish Hibernensis-tracing their evolution through mutual influence, their debt to late antique traditions from around the Mediterranean, their reception (and occasional rejection) by clerics in continental...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 036772586X
• ISBN13: 9780367725860
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"