The Profession and Practice of Medieval Canon Law

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.