Profession and Practice of Medieval Canon Law

James A. Brundage is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of History, University of Kansas, Lawrence KS, USA.

• Contents: Preface; The Legal Profession and Legal Ethics: The rise of professional canonists and development of the Ius Commune; The ethics of the legal profession: medieval canonists and their clients; The ethics of advocacy: confidentiality and conflict of interest in medieval canon law; The calumny oath and ethical ideals of canonical advocates; Entry to the ecclesiastical bar at Ely in the 14th century: the oath of admission; The monk as lawyer. Legal Education and Universities: Teaching canon law; Universities and the 'Ius Commune' in medieval Europe; The canon law curriculum in medieval Cambridge; The Cambridge faculty of canon law and the ecclesiastical courts of Ely; From classroom to courtroom: Parisian canonists and their careers. Fees, Costs and Legal Practice: The profits of the law: legal fees of university-trained advocates; Taxation of costs in medieval canonical courts; Legal aid for the poor and the professionalization of law in the Middle Ages; Contingent fees and the Ius Commune; The bar of the Ely consistory court in the 14th century: advocates, proctors, and others; Latin jurists in the Levant: the legal elite of the crusader states; The lawyers of the military orders; Addenda et corrigenda; Indexes.

'The essays [...] hang together remarkably well, and scholars will be grateful to have such a rich source of material available to them in a single volume... Professor Brundage's style is readily accessible, even to non-specialists... Anyone who has worked his way through this volume [...] can feel confident that in these pages he will have grasped the essence of the medieval canon law profession at work.' Ecclesiastical Law Journal '... there is no essay here from which readers will not profit. Brundage has an eye for the good anecdote. He must have assembled every telling example involving lawyers available from the medieval resources, and he has made good of them. Together with the evidence drawn from the writing of learned canonists, they enlarge our understanding of the Church and the history of the legal profession.' Journal of Ecclesiastical History