Making Laws for a Christian Society

Roy Flechner is Associate Professor at University College Dublin. He has held Research Fellowships at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and at the Freie Universität in Berlin. His other books include The Hibernensis (in two volumes), and Saint Patrick Retold.

• Introduction 1. The Hibernensis in context 2. Early canonical collections and the Hibernensis 3. Identifying an insular tradition of ecclesiastical law 4. Irish vernacular law and church law 5. Deploying sources 6. The Bible, exegesis, and the interpretation of law 7. Reception and practice: Brittany as a case study Conclusion Appendix I: A Synopsis of the Hibernensis and Cop, fols. 69v–80v Appendix II: Texts attributed to annales with and without additional qualifiers Appendix III: Texts attributed to Origen (Origenes)

'It is an excellent place for readers to become oriented not only in the Hibernensis but in the bewildering and important corpus of writings to which it belongs' - Speculum, 98/4.'… these essays provide a useful point of reference which helps us to contextualise the development of Collectio Canonum Hibernensis' – North American Journal of Celtic Studies, 6/2.