| FT-264939-19 | Research Programs: Summer Stipends | John Ott | Scandal, Reform, and the Compilation of Canon Law in Eleventh-Century Reims | 7/1/2019 - 8/31/2019 | $6,000.00 | John | | Ott | | | | Portland State University | Portland | OR | 97207-0751 | USA | 2019 | Medieval History | Summer Stipends | Research Programs | 6000 | 0 | 6000 | 0 | Research
and preparation for editions and translations of two major documents on church
and civil legal history in medieval France, the Apologia of Archbishop Manasses I of Reims (c. 1069-1080) and the
legal collection Sinemuriensi produced
at Reims in the 10th and 11th centuries.
This project examines the compilation of canon law in and around the episcopal city of Reims in the eleventh century, a time of dramatic change, institutional church reform, and local episcopal resistance. It focuses on two sources of considerable importance for the history of canon law and the medieval church: the Apologia of Archbishop Manasses I of Reims (c.1069-1080) and a widely disseminated legal collection known as Sinemuriensis. The Summer Stipend would support two months' archival research in France to examine and transcribe undigitized manuscripts of these texts, with the goal of better understanding how the law was created and employed in the dispute between Manasses and Pope Gregory VII. These legal sources afford valuable lessons about how local cultures and universalizing discourses intersect and overlap, and how their constituents communicate – or fail to communicate – their values to one another. Research will support a book project and several articles. |