This is the first full scholarly study of the relationship between
native secular law and the Church in medieval Wales. The
interaction was close, despite Archbishop Pecham's condemnation of
native law as the work of the devil. Huw Pryce assesses the
influence of the Church on Welsh law, examining the participation
of churchmen in the composition of lawbooks and the administration
of legal processes and analysing ecclesiastical criticism of native
customs, notably those concerning marriage. He also considers the
extent to which Welsh law defended the authority and possessions of
the Church, focusing in particular on the status of clerics and on
rights of sanctuary and lordship. The book throws revealing new
light on both secular law and the Church in Wales in the twelfth
and thirteenth centuries. As a study of the impact of
ecclesiastical reform on a society perceived by some contemporaries
as barbarian and immoral, this scholarly and lucid account makes an
important contribution to medieval history.
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