RT Article
T1 Bishops, Canon Law and Governance in Tenth-Century England: the Constitutiones of Oda of Canterbury
JF The journal of ecclesiastical history
VO 76
IS 1
SP 25
OP 54
A1 Roberts, Edward 1987-
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1920081321
AB This article challenges the view that canon law was insignificant in the development of tenth-century English administrative and judicial institutions through a new study of Oda of Canterbury's Constitutiones, an important but neglected episcopal capitulary. Particular attention is paid to Oda's sources, the text's place in the legislative programme of King Edmund and the influence of wider European approaches to episcopal justice. The article shows that Oda's statutes endorsed an emerging system of collaborative justice between secular and ecclesiastical elites, thus demonstrating that tenth-century English governance was informed by a wider range of normative legal traditions than usually thought.
DO 10.1017/S0022046924000915