ABSTRACT
An unrivalled introduction to a fascinating subject, Law and Theology in the Middle Ages explores the relationship between law and theology in medieval Europe. Focusing on legal and theological responses to justice, mercy, fairness, and sin, this text examines the tension between ecclesiastical and secular authority in medieval Europe, illustrating areas of dispute in a clear and accessible way.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |4 pages
Introduction: law and theology
part |2 pages
PART I Good behaviour
chapter |4 pages
The justice of God
chapter |9 pages
Sin and breaking the law
chapter |7 pages
The public interest?
part |2 pages
PART II Theology and putting law into order
part |2 pages
PART III Theology and the teaching of law
chapter |3 pages
Law schools
chapter |9 pages
Creating the academic discipline of law
chapter |8 pages
The professional advocate
chapter |7 pages
A moot point: disputations as academic exercises
chapter |5 pages
Legal argument and the mediaeval study of logic
part |2 pages
Part IV: Law and Theology in Procedure
chapter |2 pages
The theory and the practice
chapter |6 pages
Equity and the mediaeval idea of fairness
chapter |14 pages
The development of procedural treatises: the process
chapter |16 pages
Natural justice
part |2 pages
PART V Inquiry, inquisition and summary procedure
chapter |7 pages
Notoriety
chapter |7 pages
Shortening the process
part |2 pages
PART VI Outcomes