Vocino, G. and West, C. orcid.org/0000-0001-9134-261X (2019) «On the life and continence of judges» : the production and transmission of imperial legislation in late Ottonian Italy. Mélanges de l’École française de Rome - Moyen Âge, 131 (1). pp. 87-117. ISSN 1123-9883
Abstract
This article focuses on a decree prohibiting imperial or royal judges from marrying that was copied around the year 1000 into a ninth-century manuscript of canon law now in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence (Edili 82). The article sets the decree in the context of Ottonian legislation in Italy, and of early medieval legislation more generally, and provides a detailed investigation of the manuscript’s contents and likely provenance. It argues that the decree should be read as new evidence for the aspiration of the late Ottonian court’s clerical elites to integrate increasingly autonomous Italian legal professionals into the imperial reforming programme. A critical edition of the decree is provided as an appendix.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 École française de Rome. |
Keywords: | Ottonian rule; early medieval law; Farfa; Monte Amiata; Leo of Vercelli; celibacy; lawyers; judges; Edili 82 |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > Department of History (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) AH/L010623/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 17 Sep 2018 14:17 |
Last Modified: | 15 Jun 2020 21:16 |
Published Version: | https://journals.openedition.org/mefrm/4763 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | École française de Rome |
Refereed: | Yes |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:135634 |