Excommunication in Twelfth Century England
John Noonan was my teacher some twenty-five and more years ago. I was then a graduate student at the University of California, trying to discover enough about the history of the law of the Church to write something sensible about it. He took me under his wing. He suggested a subject, and he taught m...
| Published in: | Journal of law and religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
1994
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Journal of law and religion
Year: 1994, Volume: 11, Issue: 1, Pages: 235-253 |
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| Summary: | John Noonan was my teacher some twenty-five and more years ago. I was then a graduate student at the University of California, trying to discover enough about the history of the law of the Church to write something sensible about it. He took me under his wing. He suggested a subject, and he taught me - at least he showed me - the possibility of seeing larger themes in the details of legal and historical research. Attention to the details was essential, but no less important was thinking about their background and their implications. It was a lesson I might have learned in law school. Apparently I had not. This lesson came back to me forcefully when, in more recent days, research on the development of ecclesiastical jurisdiction in England raised the subject of the place of excommunication in the subject's early history. Excommunication, dealing as it does with the complex interrelationships between legal doctrine and human behavior, is a subject about which Judge Noonan might have written a wonderful book. |
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| ISSN: | 2163-3088 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of law and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/1051632 |