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 Europe, their fusion with continental texts, and their
eventual impact on the formation of a European canonical tradition.
Canonical collections, penitentials, and miscellanies of church
law, and royal legislation, are all shown to have been 'living
texts', which were continually reshaped through a process of trial
and error that eventually gave rise to a more stable and more
coherent body of church laws. Through a meticulous text-critical
study Roy Flechner argues that the growth of church law in Europe
owes as much to a serendipitous 'conversation' between texts as it
does to any deliberate plan overseen by bishops and popes.
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