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STUDIES STUDIES IN STUDIES IN CHURCH HISTORY IN CHURCH HISTORY Volume 56 CHURCH The Church and the Law HISTORY Edited by ROSAMOND McKITTERICK 56 CHARLOTTE METHUEN and Ecclesiastical History Society VOLUME 56 ANDREW SPICER Editors: Charlotte Methuen and Andrew Spicer The theme of Studies in Church History 56 is ‘The Assistant Editor: Tim Grass Church and the Law’. It explores the legal issues and STUDIES IN CHURCH HISTORY THE CHURCH AND THE LAW AND THE CHURCH legal consequences underlying relations between secular The aim of the society is to foster the study and religious authorities in the context of the Christian of ecclesiastical history viewed in a wide Latest volumes Church, from its earliest emergence within Roman historical context and from a broad inter- 43. Discipline and Diversity ed. Kate Cooper and Jeremy Gregory (2007) Palestine as a persecuted minority sect, through the 44. Revival and Resurgence in Christian History period when it became legally recognized within the disciplinary perspective, and without regard Roman empire, its many institutional manifestations to denominational differences or divisions. ed. Kate Cooper and Jeremy Gregory (2008) 45. The Church, the Afterlife and the Fate of the Soul THE CHURCH AND THE LAW in the East and the West throughout the Middle Ages, Membership is open to scholars and students the reconfi gurations associated with the Reformation ed. Peter Clarke and Tony Claydon (2009) Edited by ROSAMOND McKITTERICK and Catholic or Counter-Reformations, the legal and of all nationalities, and to libraries and 46. God’s Bounty? The Churches and the Natural World institutions. CHARLOTTE METHUEN and constitutional complications (such as in Reformation ed. Peter Clarke and Tony Claydon (2010) ANDREW SPICER The society holds regular meetings and England or Calvin’s Geneva), and the variable 47. Saints and Sanctity ed. Peter Clarke and Tony Claydon (2011) consequences of so-called secularization thereafter. The conferences, including events for postgraduate 48. The Church and Literature ed. Peter Clarke and Charlotte Methuen (2012) engagement of secular and religious authorities with the students. 49. The Church on its Past ed. Peter D. Clarke and Charlotte Methuen (2013) law and the question of what the law actually comprised Studies in Church History is an annually 50. Religion and the Household (Roman law, canon law, national laws, state and royal published series comprising the keynote ed. John Doran, Charlotte Methuen and Alexandra Walsham (2014) edicts) are addressed. Bringing together the work of a lectures and a peer-reviewed selection of 51. Christianity and Religious Plurality wide range of scholars including Paul Cavill (University of Cambridge), Peter Edge (Oxford Brookes University), communications delivered at the society’s ed. Charlotte Methuen, Andrew Spicer and John Wolffe (2015) 52. Doubting Christianity: The Church and Doubt Caroline Humfress (University of St Andrews), and conferences. Each volume presents important Rosamond McKitterick (University of Cambridge), ed. Frances Andrews, Charlotte Methuen and Andrew Spicer (2016) new work, by established as well as by younger this volume deepens our understanding of interactions 53. Translating Christianity scholars, on a particular theme. Volumes are between the churches and the legal systems in which they ed. Simon Ditchfi eld, Charlotte Methuen and Andrew Spicer (2017) existed in the past and continue to exist now. available to members of the society at a reduced 54. The Church and Empire price. ed. Stewart J. Brown, Charlotte Methuen and Andrew Spicer (2018) ROSAMOND McKITTERICK is Professor Emerita of Studies in Church History: Subsidia is an 55. Churches and Education Medieval History at the University of Cambridge occasional series of thematic volumes intended ed. Morwenna Ludlow, Charlotte Methuen and Andrew Spicer (2019) CHARLOTTE METHUEN is Professor of Ecclesiastical to supplement the society’s existing series and History at the University of Glasgow. Subsidia Series to extend and diversify its publications. 14. International Religious Networks ANDREW SPICER is Professor of Early Modern ed. Jeremy Gregory and Hugh McLeod (2012) European History at Oxford Brookes University. Cambridge Core For further information about this journal please go to the journal website at: For the Ecclesiastical History Society www.cambridge.org/StudCH Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. 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IP address: 170.106.202.8, on 26 Sep 2021 at 18:16:00, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/stc.2019.29 Contents Preface ix List of Contributors xi List of Abbreviations xv List of Illustrations xix Introduction 1 Rosamond McKitterick The Church and the Law in the Early Middle Ages 7 (Presidential Address) Rosamond McKitterick ‘Cherchez La Femme!’ Heresy and Law in Late Antiquity 36 Caroline Humfress God’s Judgement in Carolingian Law and History Writing 60 (President’s Prize) Robert A. H. Evans The Political Background to the Establishment of the Slavic 78 Nomocanon in the Thirteenth Century Marija Koprivica General Excommunications of Unknown Malefactors: 93 Conscience, Community and Investigations in England, c.1150–1350 Felicity Hill The Procedure and Practice of Witness Testimony in 114 English Ecclesiastical Courts, c.1193–1300 Sarah B. White The Bishops and the Deposition of Edward II 131 Samuel Lane Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.202.8, on 26 Sep 2021 at 18:16:00, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/stc.2019.29 Contents Kings’ Courts and Bishops’ Administrations in Fourteenth- 152 Century England: A Study in Cooperation Alison K. McHardy Arbitration, Delegation, Conservation: Marginalized 165 Mechanisms for Dispute Resolution in the Pre-Reformation English Church R. N. Swanson Perjury in Early Tudor England 182 Paul Cavill Conscience and the King’s Household Clergy in the Early 210 Tudor Court of Requests Laura Flannigan Restoration of Deprived Clergy during the 1559 Royal 227 Visitation of the Eastern Dioceses Ralph Houlbrooke Adiaphora, Luther and the Material Culture of Worship 246 Andrew Spicer A Godly Law? Bulstrode Whitelocke, Puritanism and the 273 Common Law in Seventeenth-Century England Jacqueline Rose ‘Very knaves besides’: Catholic Print and the Enforcers of the 288 1662 Licensing Act in Restoration England Chelsea Reutcke Protestant Dissent and the Law: Enforcement and 306 Persecution, 1662–72 David L. Wykes The House of Lords and Religious Toleration in Scotland: 320 James Greenshields’s Appeal, 1709–11 Ben Rogers vi Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.202.8, on 26 Sep 2021 at 18:16:00, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/stc.2019.29 Contents Toleration and Repression: German States, the Law and the 338 ‘Sects’ in the long Nineteenth Century Manfred Henke The Social and Legal Reception of Illegitimate Births in the 362 Gurk Valley, Austria, 1868–1945 Catherine Sumnall Keeping up with the Chinese: Constituting and Reconstituting 383 the Anglican Church in South China, 1897–1951 Tim Yung The Church of England and the Legislative Reforms of 401 1828–32: Revolution or Adjustment? Nicholas Dixon The Decline of the Clerical Magistracy in the Nineteenth- 419 Century English Midlands John W. B. Tomlinson Debating the Legal Status of the Ornaments Rubric: 434 Ritualism and Royal Commissions in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century England (Kennedy Prize) Dan D.