The principal objects of this monograph are two: first to provide a narrative biography of Anselm, bishop of Havelberg and archbishop of Ravenna (ca. 1095-1158), and second to analyze Anselm's works in the light of twelfth-century ideas of history, progress and the Church A follower of St. Norbert of Xanten, Anselm served as an advisor to three German emperors, a diplomat to Constantinople and a papal legate. Historians' knowledge of his life relies primarily on a dissertation by Eugen Dombrowski (Konigsberg: 1880), which is basically an itinerary in narrative form. The present monograph attempts to assess more fully Anselm's personality. Historians since Dombrowski have often seen Anselm as a sycophant. However, a study of the sources of his life shows him to have been just as concerned with developing his own diocese on the eastern border of Saxony as with personal advancement at court. He never wavered from supporting an alliance of church and empire and often mediated between the two sides The second part of this monograph deals with Anselm's concept of the Church, showing that his main concern was for that church as an earthly institution bounded by time. His understanding and defense of the present church sprang directly from his study of its past history. In this he was unique among early twelfth-century exegetes who generally subordinated the study of history to an attempt to intellectualize transcendental mysteries. This is demonstrated by a comparison of Anselm's ideas with those of his contemporaries Rupert of Deutz and Hugh of St. Victor. Other authors are compared to Anselm both to show his unique attitude toward the past and to point to possible sources for his history of the Church The conclusion suggests that Anselm was influenced by Bernard of Clairvaux and Honorius Augustodunensis, but that his works probably had no lasting influence because of his personality and the narrow focus of his thought. In spite of this, a study of his life and works shows the difficulties confronting ideas of historical development posed by the champions of an allegorical interpretation of scripture. Anselm of Havelberg was one of the first to get around them / acase@tulane.edu

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-251).

Of several rhymed offices written for the Feast of the Visitation in the late fourteenth century, John of Jenstein's Office, Exurgens autem Maria, is possibly the first composed for the newly promulgated feast. Composed to implore the intercession of the Virgin to end the Great Schism, the office contains both poetic and prose liturgical items set to chant for the singing of the complete office cycle. Chants display characteristics of late medieval melodic style and compositional techniques. Being carefully planned, the office displays great unity of text and music throughout.

The maritagium and the gift in tail were conditional gifts by which land from the patrimony might be provided to daughters and younger sons while ensuring that when such cadet branches failed the land would return to the central inheritance. The coalescence of the common law around coherent principles and the legislation of Edward I on land conveyance resulted in the demise of the maritagium as a land conveyance form and its replacement by the gift in tail. Also, attitudes about the place of women in the family and marriage and the economic changes of the thirteenth century, which encouraged the development of a flexible strategy between demesne and rented lands created a land sales market, caused the practice of granting marriage portions in land to daughters to be replaced by monetary and chattel gifts, while no such change was made in the provision for younger sons.

Under sixth century Roman law (Corpus Juris Civilis) and Frankish law (Pactus Legis Salicae), women, while lacking full juridical equality with men, nevertheless possessed many legal rights and freedoms. While similarities existed between the legal standings of women in both worlds, a fundamental difference underlay the laws and legal systems. Over centuries, the Roman legal system evolved from dependence on family for justice to dependence on the state. The presence of a relatively strong and stable Roman government, legal system, and policing force gradually decreased Roman women's legal dependence on their families and weakened the legal control of male agnates and husbands on Roman women's lives, creating a system which gave women legal recourse against kin (paterfamilias excepted). Frankish law was more dependent on family and kin for enforcement; hence, Frankish women, lacking legal recourse against family, were subject to greater legal control by male relatives.

Thèse (M.A.)--Université de Sherbrooke (Canada), 2008. / Titre de l'écran-titre (visionné le 1 février 2007). In ProQuest dissertations and theses. Publié aussi en version papier.

Les historiens qui ont produit l'histoire du notariat français ont isolé cette institution du monde judiciaire médiéval, alors que dans la pratique, un lien étroit unissait le notaire et la justice. Ce lien est perceptible à Orléans grâce aux registres du notaire Pierre Christofle, qui pratiqua dans le deuxième quart du XVe siècle. Sa principale tâche était de donner un caractère authentique à tout acte que les justiciables jugeaient opportuns. Cette fonction d'authentification, le notaire Christofle la devait au prévôt, seigneur judiciaire de la ville d'Orléans. À titre de clerc de la prévôté, et afin de répondre aux différents besoins des justiciables, Pierre Christofle rédigea plusieurs minutes qui touchaient de prés le monde judiciaire. Ce notaire doit par conséquent être considéré comme un auxiliaire de la justice et non pas comme un simple intermédiaire entre la justice et les justiciables. En plus de la faculté d'authentifier, le prévôt détenait la faculté de juger, faculté dont il dut se départir au profit des juges. Certains historiens ont vu à tort cette attribution des fonctions du prévôt comme une division de la justice en deux juridictions, la première contentieuse, relevant des juges, et la deuxième gracieuse, relevant des notaires. Les accords de Pierre Christofle démontrent que ce notaire possédait les deux compétences; de plus, ces accords possédaient la même force probante et exécutoire que les jugements rendus par les juges, ce qui invalide la distinction historiographique entre les décisions rendues en justice et celles rendues par des pratiques infra judiciaires. Il faut plutôt voir les facultés de juger des juges et celles d'authentification des notaires comme des composantes complémentaires de ce que nous avons défini comme un appareil judiciaire médiéval. Cette conclusion renforce par conséquent le lien entre justice et notariat au Moyen Âge et rétablit le rôle et la place de Pierre Christofle au coeur du monde judiciaire orléanais.

This thesis re-evaluates the impact of the Statute of Pleading and its legislation of the languages of the law on the legal actors who worked in England's royal courts in the fourteenth century. In order to broaden the scope of existing research on the subject, this project puts forth a new interpretation of the Statute by proposing a different hypothesis for why the law exists in two linguistically variable forms on the records of the Parliament and statute rolls. By studying the legal professionals who worked in England's legal realm and their use of languages, this thesis argues that the Statute of Pleading---in each of its versions---is indicative of the legal training and education received by these individuals in the later medieval period, and also as an expression of their resistance to changing the written languages of the law.

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