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Examines how late medieval church courts were used for marriage cases, and how this varied dramatically across Europe.

From the establishment of a coherent doctrine on sacramental marriage to the eve of the Reformation, late medieval church courts were used for marriage cases in a variety of ways. This study explores the stark discrepancies in practice between the North and South of Europe, and what this reveals about the institutions of marriage and the Church.

Wolfgang P. Muller tells the story of how abortion came to be criminalized in the West. As he shows, criminalization as a distinct phenomenon and abortion as a self-standing criminal category developed in tandem with each other.

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Dedicated to medieval canon law expert Kenneth Pennington, this work discusses the contribution of medieval church law to the origins of the western legal tradition. Subdivided into four topical categories, these essays cover the entire range of the history of medieval canon law from the sixth to the sixteenth century.

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Anyone who wants to understand how abortion has been treated historically in the western legal tradition must first come to terms with two quite different but interrelated historical trajectories. On one hand, there is the ancient Judeo-Christian condemnation of prenatal homicide as a wrong warranting retribution, on the other, there is the juristic definition of "crime" in the modern sense of the word, which distinguished the term sharply fro...

Huguccio was an important lawyer of the medieval church, bishop of Ferrara, and one of the greatest representatives of twelfth-century scholasticism. In this book-length study of this influential figure, Wolfgang P. Müller provides a critical account of the biographical information on the man and his writings.