Great Christian Jurists and Legal Collections in the First Millennium

Great Christian Jurists and Legal Collections in the First Millennium is a systematic
collection of essays describing how Christian leaders and scholars of the first millennium
in the West contributed to law and jurisprudence and used written norms and corrective
practices to maintain social order and to guide people from this life into the next. With
chapters on topics such as Roman and post-Roman law, church councils, the papacy, and
the relationship between royal and ecclesiastical authority, as well as on individual
authors such as Lactantius, Ambrosiaster, Augustine, Leo I, Gelasius I, and Gregory
the Great, this book invites a more holistic and realistic appreciation of early-medieval
contributions to the history of law and jurisprudence, suitable for entry-level students and
scholars alike. Great Christian Jurists and Legal Collections in the First Millennium
provides a fresh look, from a new perspective, enabling readers to see these familiar
authors in a new light.