Preface
1: Pope Urban II's Council of Piacenza: Introduction
2: Enactment, Circulation, and Survival of the Canons of
Piacenza
Appendix I: English Translation of Bernold of Constance's
description of the Council of Piacenza
Appendix II: Vagrant Canons
3: The Historiography of the Canons of Piacenza
4: The Transmission of the Canons of Piacenza (with an edition)
5: Commentary on the Canons
6: Legislation from the Councils of Urban II between Piacenza and
Rome (April, 1099)
Postscript
Bibliography
Robert Somerville is a specialist in pre-modern Western Church
history and canon law, especially of the eleventh through the
thirteenth centuries, and is the author of many books and articles
on Church history from the fourth through the sixteenth centuries.
His book on Pope Urban II's Council of Piacenza (1095) forms a kind
of trilogy with his earlier volumes on Urban's Council of Clermont
(1095), and the Council of Melfi (1089) and the Collectio
Britannica. Prof. Somerville is a fellow and corresponding fellow
of several academies and learned societies in the United States and
in Europe, including the Medieval Academy of America and the
Bayerische Akademie der
Wissenschaften. In addition to Columbia University he has taught at
the University of Pennsylvania, and has been a visiting professor
at the University of California, Berkeley, and at New York
University, and also has lectured at conferences and universities
in North America and in Europe.
Strikingly penetrating study.
*Detlev Jasper, Journal of Ecclesiastical History Vol. 64.2*
Meticulously researched and highly detailed, this book will be an
invaluable resource for researchers in the field. It should also be
of interest to those curious about the challenges of interpreting
the sources for this period of church history.
*Michael Tivey, Journal of History and Cultures*
Somerville's careful scholarship is even more impressive ... Unless
new manuscripts are discovered, his work will definitive for a very
long time. He has given Urban's conciliar activity a firm and
secure place in conciliar history.
*Kenneth Pennington, The Catholic Historical Review*
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