Authority and Power: Studies on Medieval Law and Government Presented to Walter Ullmann on His Seventieth Birthday

Abstract

Foreword List of abbreviations 1. The alleged territoriality of Visigothic law P. D. King 2. Some Carolingian law-books and their function Rosamond McKitterick 3. The earliest surviving royal Ordo: some liturgical and historical aspects Janet L. Nelson 4. The Epistola Widonis, ecclesiastical reform and canonistic enterprise 1049-1141 John Gilchrist 5. Ralph de Diceto, Henry II and Beckett (with an appendix on decretal letters) Charles Duggan and Anne Duggan 6. Fides et culpa: the use of Roman law in ecclesiastical ideology E. F. Vodola 7. Hostiensis on Per venerabilem: the role of the College of Cardinals J. A. Watt 8. Centre and locality: aspects of papal administration in England in the later thirteenth century Jane Sayers 9. The Spanish Church revisited: the episcopal gravamina of 1279 Peter Linehan 10. Ockham and the birth of individual rights Arthur Stephen McGrade 11. Public expediency and natural law: a fourteenth-century discussion on the origins of government and property Brian Tierney 12. The King's Hall, Cambridge and English medieval collegiate history Alan B. Cobban 13. A fourteenth-century contribution to the theory of citizenship: political man and the problem of created citizenship in the thought of Baldus de Ubaldis Joseph P. Canning 14. What was conciliarism? Conciliar theory in historical perspective A. J. Black 15. The problem of the cardinalate in the Great Schism R. N. Swanson 16. Paulus Vladimiri's attack on the just war: a case study in legal polemics Frederick H. Russell Bibliography of the writings of Walter Ullmann Peter Linehan.