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  • 7 - Canonical Collections

  • from Part I
  • Edited by Philip L. Reynolds, Emory University, Atlanta
  • Book:
    Great Christian Jurists and Legal Collections in the First Millennium
    Published online:
    21 June 2019
    Print publication:
    27 June 2019, pp 182-197

  • Summary

    With over seventy surviving texts, canonical collections appear to have been the most prevalent form of normative codification in the early medieval Latin West. Rather than being merely compilations of derivative material, the choices that were made in selecting the material and organizing it are important windows onto regional variation in doctrinal observance and in ecclesiastical governance. Canonical collections are also important sources for social history thanks to the preoccupation of many a collection with such matters of social significance as marriage, landholding, and the socially disadvantaged. This chapter includes a sketch of the development of these collections, insofar as a clear trajectory of development can be discerned. The account is broadly chronological, with a reflection on central themes that have punctuated the study of collections: their sources, their authority, their main concerns, the motivations for their compilation, and their impact.

  • St Boniface as historian: a continental perspective on the organization of the early Anglo-Saxon church

  • Roy Flechner
  • Journal:
    Anglo-Saxon England / Volume 41 / December 2012
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    10 July 2013, pp. 41-62
    Print publication:
    December 2012

  • Boniface and Bede relied for the most part on the same sources of information for learning about the early Anglo-Saxon church, yet their accounts differ on a number of crucial points pertaining to church organization and the importance of London as an ecclesiastical centre. The present article takes a close look at Boniface's methods of conducting research into the past, and asks how they compared with Bede's. By focusing on Boniface's account of an early-seventh-century Lundunensis synodus, it is asked whether Boniface offers a viable alternative to Bede, and to what extent his account challenges the prevalent historiographical narrative of the foundation and growth of the church in Anglo-Saxon England.