Projektnummer

0064987

Zusammenfassung

"Penitential Justice: Crime, Sin, and Church Law in Medieval Germany" tells the story of how medieval church courts in Germany first began to differentiate crimes from sins in the twelfth century. Although scholars tend to assume that this distinction always existed, this project argues that it is actually difficult to find in surviving legal sources from before the year 1150. Before then, church courts seem to have employed a single procedure for both religious and civic offenses, treating them interchangeably. It was only in the twelfth century that the rediscovery of lost Roman law...