Bibliography – Roman Law and Canon Law

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The Cambridge Companion to Roman Law – Edited by David Johnston

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date: February 2015
Print publication year: 2015
Online ISBN: 9781139034401

This book reflects the wide range of current scholarship on Roman law. The essays, newly commissioned for this volume, cover the sources of evidence for classical Roman law, the elements of private law, as well as criminal and public law, and the second life of Roman law in Byzantium, in civil and canon law, and in political discourse from AD 1100 to the present. Roman law nowadays is studied in many different ways, which is reflected in the diversity of approaches in the essays. Some focus on how the law evolved in ancient Rome, others on its place in the daily life of the Roman citizen, still others on how Roman legal concepts and doctrines have been deployed through the ages. All of them are responses to one and the same thing: the sheer intellectual vitality of Roman law, which has secured its place as a central element in the intellectual tradition and history of the West.

A text-book of Roman law from Augustus to Justinian / by W.W. Buckland- Cambridge : at the University Press, 1932.

Barton, J. L., ‘On the teaching of Roman law in England around 1200’, Journal of Legal History, 14 (1993), 53-8.
Bloomfield, Morton W., ‘Beowulf, Byrhtnoth, and the judgment of God: trial by combat in Anglo-Saxon England’, Speculum, 44 (1969), 545-559.
Brasington, B. C., ‘Canon law in the Leges Henrici Primi’, Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte. Kanonistische Abteilung, 123 (2006), 288–305.
Brett, Martin, ‘Canon law and litigation: the century before Gratian’, in Franklin, M.J. and Harper-Bill, C. (eds.), Medieval Ecclesiastical Studies in Honour of Dorothy M. Owen (Woodbridge, 1995), pp. 21-40.
Brett, Martin, ‘Theodore and the Latin canon law’, in Lapidge, Michael (ed.), Archbishop Theodore: Commemorative Studies on his Life and Influence (Cambridge, 1995), pp. 120-40.
Brooke, C. N. L., ‘Gregorian reform in action: clerical marriage in England, 1050-1200’, Cambridge Historical Journal, 12 (1956), 1-21.
Brundage, J. A., The Profession and Practice of Medieval Canon Law (Aldershot, 2004).
Brundage, J. A., ‘The monk as lawyer’, The Jurist, 39 (1979), 423–36.

Cross, J. E., and Hamer, A. (eds.), Wulfstan’s Canon Law Collection (Anglo-Saxon Texts, 1, Woodbridge, 1999).

De Zulueta, F., and Stein, P. G. (eds.), The Teaching of Roman Law in England around 1200 (Selden Society supplementary ser., 8, London, 1990).
Duggan, Anne J., ‘Ecclesiastical succesion: canon law and compromise in post-Conquest England’, in Lachaud, Frédérique, and Penman, Michael A. (eds.), Making and Breaking the Rules: Succession in Medieval Europe, c.1000-c.1600 (Turnhout, 2008), pp. 175-90.
Duggan, Anne J., ‘Roman, canon and common law in twelfth-century England: the council of Northampton (1164) re-examined’, Historical Research, 83 (2010), 379-408.
Duggan, Anne, J., ‘De consultationibus: the role of episcopal consultation in the shaping of canon law in the 12th century’, in Brasington, Bruce Clark, and Cushing, Kathleen G. (eds.), Bishops, Texts and the Use of Canon Law around 1100: Essays in Honur of Martin Brett (Aldershot, 2008)

Evans, Gillian R., ‘Lanfranc, Anselm and a new consciousness of canon law in England’, in Doe, Norman, and Hill, Mark (eds.), English Canon Law: Essays in Honour of Bishop Eric Kemp (Cardiff, 1998), pp. 1-12.

Flechner, Roy, ‘An Insular Tradition of Ecclesiastical Law: Fifth to Eighth Century’, Proceedings of the British Academy, 157 (2009), 23-46.
Fraher, R. M., ‘The Becket dispute and two decretist traditions: the Bolognese masters revisited and some new Anglo-Norman texts’, Journal of Medieval History, 4 (1978), 347-68.

Helmholz, Richard H., ‘The early history of the grand jury and the Canon Law’, University of Chicago Law Review, 50 (1983), 613-27.
Hudson, J., ‘Constitutions of Clarendon, clause 3, and Henry II’s reforms of law and administration’, in Laws, Lawyers and Texts: Studies in Medieval Legal History in Honour of Paul Brand, ed. Susanne Jenks, J. Rose, and C. Whittick (Brill: Leiden, 2012), pp. 1-19.
Jones, M. E., ‘The legacy of Roman law in post-Roman Britain’, in Mathisen, R. W. (ed.), Law, Society, and Authority in Late Antiquity (Oxford, 2001), pp. 52–67.
Kuttner, S., and Rathbone E., ‘Anglo-Norman canonists of the twelfth century’, Traditio, 7 (1949–51), 279–358.

Peltzer, Jörg, ‘The Angevin kings and canon law: episcopal elections and the loss of Normandy’, Anglo-Norman Studies, 27 (2005), 169-84.
Philpott, M., ‘ “In primis…omnis humanae prudentiae inscius et expers putaretur”: St Anselm’s knowledge of canon law’, in Evans, G. R., and Luscombe, D. E. (eds.), Anselm, Aosta, Bec and Canterbury: Papers in Commemoration of the Nine Hundredth Anniversary of Anselm’s Enthronement as Archbishop (Sheffield, 1996), pp. 94-105.
Philpott, M., ‘The De iniusta uexacione Willelmi episcopi primi and canon law in Anglo-Norman Durham’, in Harvey, M., Prestwich, M., and Rollason, D. (eds.), Anglo-Norman Durham, 1093-1193 (Woodbridge, 1994), pp. 125-37.

Rathbone, E., ‘Roman law in the Anglo-Norman realm’, in Forchielli, J., and Stickler, A. M. (eds.), Studia Gratiana post octava decreti saecularia auctore consilio commemorationi Gratianae Instruendae edita (Collectanea historiae juris canonici, 11, Rome, 1967), pp. 253–71.
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Richardson, H. G., ‘The marriage of Isabelle of Angoulême: a problem of canon law’, in Forchielli, J., and Stickler, A. M. (eds.), Studia Gratiana post octava decreti saecularia auctore consilio commemorationi Gratianae Instruendae edita (Collectanea historiae juris canonici, 11, Rome, 1967), pp. 397–423.
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Stein, P. G., ‘Custom in Roman and medieval civil law’, Continuity and Change, 10 (1995), 337–44.

Thorne, S. E., ‘Le droit canonique en Angleterre’, Revue historique de droit français et étranger, 13 (1934), 499-513.
Turner, R. V., ‘Roman law in England before the time of Bracton’, Journal of British Studies, 15 (1975), 1–25.
Van Liere, F., ‘The study of canon law and the eclipse of the Lincoln schools, 1175-1225’, History of Universities, 18 (2003), 1-13.

Williams, S., ‘Geoffrey of Monmouth and the canon law’, Speculum, 27 (1952), 184-90.
Winkler, J. F., ‘Roman law in Anglo-Saxon England’, Journal of Legal History, 13 (1992), 101–27.
Worby, S., ‘Kinship: the canon law and the common law in thirteenth-century England’, Historical Research, 80 (2007), 443–68.

Borkowski’s textbook on Roman law / Paul J. du Plessis–Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2020.

Introduction: Rome : a historical sketch

Part I: The Roman legal system
The sources of Roman law
Roman litigation

Part II: The law of persons
Status, slavery, and citizenship
The Roman family

Part III: The law of property and inheritance
Interests in property
Acquiring ownership
Inheritance

Part IV: The law of obligations
Obligations : common principles and obligations arising from contracts
Obligations arising from delict

Part V: Roman law and the modern world
Roman law and the European Ius commune.