Jean Gaudemet
Ashgate Variorum
Hardback
336
1994
The question these articles seek to respond to in this fifth collection by Jean Gaudemet to be published by Variorum is how the intellectual elite of the medieval Church perceived the institutions among which they lived - how they portrayed them and how they sought to influence them. Whether dealing with the papacy and its place in the Church and the world with the role of the people in government or with the position of the individual in society he would argue that this is the essential question. In their response this elite drew on the Bible and custom on Roman law and papal letters in order that the law could encompass all human experience. To achieve this these jurists needed to create categories and work out principles hence the recourse to theology and the necessity for a logical structure a ?systematization?.
Ashgate Variorum
Hardback
336
1994
The question these articles seek to respond to in this fifth collection by Jean Gaudemet to be published by Variorum is how the intellectual elite of the medieval Church perceived the institutions among which they lived - how they portrayed them and how they sought to influence them. Whether dealing with the papacy and its place in the Church and the world with the role of the people in government or with the position of the individual in society he would argue that this is the essential question. In their response this elite drew on the Bible and custom on Roman law and papal letters in order that the law could encompass all human experience. To achieve this these jurists needed to create categories and work out principles hence the recourse to theology and the necessity for a logical structure a ?systematization?.