Melodie Harris Eichbauer - Law as Profession and Practice in Medieval Europe: Essays in Honor of James A. Brundage

LAW AS PROFESSION AND PRACTICE IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE

James Arthur Brundage

Essays in Honor of James A. Brundage

Edited by

KENNETH PENNINGTON
The Catholic University of America, USA

and

MELODIE HARRIS EICHBAUER
Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, USA

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Kenneth Pennington and Melodie Harris Eichbauer 2011

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Pennington, Kenneth.

Law as profession and practice in medieval Europe : essays in honor of James A. Brundage.

1. Law, Medieval. 2. Law--Europe--History. 3. Practice of law--Europe--History.

I. Title II. Brundage, James A. III. Eichbauer, Melodie Harris.
340.5'5-dc22

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Law as profession and practice in medieval Europe : essays in honor of James A. Brundage / [edited by] Kenneth Pennington and Melodie Harris Eichbauer.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4094-2574-8 (hbk) -- ISBN 978-1-4094-2575-5 (ebk)

1. Law--Europe--History--To 1500. 2. Canon law--History--To 1500. 3. Law, Medieval.
I. Pennington, Kenneth. II. Eichbauer, Melodie Harris. III. Brundage, James A.

KJ147.L385 2011
340.5'5--dc22

2011009814

ISBN 978 1 4094 2574 8 (hbk)
ISBN 978 1 4094 2575 5 (ebk)
ISBN 9781409482543 (ebk-ePUB)

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James Arthur Brundage began his brilliant career in Nebraska. Writing a thesis under Edgar N. Johnson in 1951 with the title The Chronicle of Henry of Livonia, Jim earned his Master of Arts degree from the University of Nebraska. Ten years later he published his thesis with the University of Wisconsin Press. He completed his post graduate studies at Fordham University in 1955, writing the dissertation The Compoti of Bursars of Whalley Abbey under the direction of Jeremiah F. OSullivan. He began his academic career in 1957 in the History Department of the University of WisconsinMilwaukee where he taught until 1989. In that year he became the Ahmanson-Murphy Professor of History at the University of Kansas. He retired in 2000. Throughout his illustrious career at both universities, Jim has accumulated numerous distinctions: a Guggenheim fellow from 1963 to 1964, a Fulbright Senior Lecturer at the University of Madrid from 1967 to 1968, a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow at the Newberry Library from 1983 to 1984, and a recipient of the John Gilmary Shea prize from the American Catholic Historical Association in 1998. He became a fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1978, a Life Member of Clare Hall at Cambridge in 1985, and a fellow of the Medieval Academy of America in 1990. He also has served as an associate editor of the Journal of Medieval History since 1974 and as an associate editor of the Journal of the History of Sexuality from 1993 to 1998.

His productivity has been prodigious and continues today on the eve of his eightieth birthday. In over 400 publicationsconsisting of monographs, articles, reviews, and contributions to dictionaries, encyclopedias, and collected essayslegal history has been the foundation of Professor Brundages work. He has added to our knowledge of legal theory and the evolution of the legal profession. He also has explained how legal developments influenced marriage and sexuality, and the crusade movement.

His work has been wide-ranging and has explored many nooks and crannies of the medieval church and society. In The Decretalists and the Greek Church of South Italy (1973) and Canon Law as an Instrument for Ecclesial Reform: An Historical Perspective (1984) he explored the inner workings Professor Brundage brought these essays together in