The starting point for the majority of the articles collected here is the study of church councils and their procedures, with a focus on 13th-century France. Th

These ten essays by John Van Engen situate religion in the history of medieval Western Europe: as an unavoidable presence in everyday life, as a conceptual fram

The theology of sacred or clerical orders of the Latin Church in the high and later Middle Ages developed from an amalgam of texts written from late patristic a

'Inquisition' was the new form of criminal procedure that was developed by the lawyer-pope Innocent III and given definitive form at the Fourth Lateran Council

This latest collection of studies by James Brundage deals with the emergence of the profession of canon law and with aspects of its practice in the period from