Project Publications

This is a list of research and publications that have made use of Corpus Synodalium; we warmly welcome news of others! (Updates should be sent to the project leader, Rowan Dorin <dorin@stanford.edu>.)

  • Allegria, Simone. "Costituzioni sinodali diocesane e reclusione volontaria in Italia centrale tra Due e Trecento. Qualche riflessione." Quaderni di storia religiosa medievale 24/1 (2021): 143-165. [link]
  • Arnold, John H. The Making of Lay Religion in Southern France, c. 1000-1350. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024.
  • Avignon, Carole. "Fiançailles, juridictions et disciplines synodales. Ambiguïtés d'une norme et discontinuités de sa diffusion (13e-15e siècle)." Revue de droit canonique 71/1 (2021): 109-138.
  • Baker, Lane. "The Sound of Sin: Episcopal Noise Regulation in the Later Middle Ages." Viator 52, no. 2 (2021): 131-178.
  • Beaulande-Barraud, Véronique. "Le synodal de Reims en sa province (des statuts de Guiard de Laon au synodal de Guillaume de Trie)." Revue de droit canonique 71/1 (2021): 21-38.
  • Dorin, Rowan. "The Bishop as Lawmaker in Late Medieval Europe."Past and Present 253 (Nov. 2021): 45-82. [link]
  • Dorin, Rowan. "Corpus Synodalium: Medieval Canon Law in the Digital Age." In Digital Medieval Studies—Practice and Preservation, eds. Laura Morreale and Sean Gilsdorf, 49-75. Leeds: ARC Humanities Press, 2022.
  • Dorin, Rowan, and Raffaella Bianchi Riva. "Usury and Restitution in Late Medieval Episcopal Statutes: A Case Study in the Local Reception of Conciliar Decrees." Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law 38 (2021): 309-359. [link]
  • Doten-Snitker, Kerice. "Medieval Political Competition and the Attack on Ethnoreligious Diversity." PhD Dissertation, University of Washington, 2020. [link]
  • Fossier, Arnaud. "Confession et absolution dans les statuts synodaux français et italiens (13e-15e siècle)." Revue de droit canonique 71/1 (2021): 139-174.
  • Freidenreich, David. Jewish Muslims: How Christians Imagined Islam as the Enemy. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022.
  • Fudge, Thomas A. Coerced Ordinations in the Late Medieval Bohemian Province. London: Lexington Books, 2023.
  • Kirkland, Justin S. "The 1444 Sunday law of London." Historical Research 97 (2024): 295-306. [link]
  • Lusset, Élisabeth. "Les statuts synodaux bilingues du diocèse de Troyes (14e-15e siècle." Revue de droit canonique 71/1 (2021): 39-68.
  • Morreale, Laura, et al. "Digital Scholarship in the Field of Church History." Catholic Historical Review 109 (2023): 132-150.
  • Pagnoni, Fabrizio. "Coutume, droit canonique, pouvoir épiscopal. La diffusion des normes relatives aux dîmes dans les législations synodales (Italie du Nord, 13e-14e siècle)." Revue de droit canonique 71/1 (2021): 175-206.
  • Perron, Anthony. "Scandal of the Church, Prison of the Soul. The Problem of Bad Custom in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Canon Law and Practice." Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques 47/3 (2021): 20-38. [link]
  • Righi, Laura. "Amministrare l'usura. La diffusione dell'interesse nella canonistica e nella legislazione medievale (XII-XIV secolo)."Cristianesimo nella storia 44/1 (2023): 31-57.
  • Righi, Laura. "Digital Dark Ages: The Role of Medieval Corpora in the Context of the Digital Humanities and Religious Studies." Cristianesimo nella storia 44/3 (2023): 837-852.
  • Schmugge, Ludwig. "Self-Defense in Fifteenth-Century Church Courts: The Requirement of Acting 'with the Moderation of Lawful Protection'(cum moderamine inculpate tutele)." Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law n.s. 40 (2023): 157-172.
  • Somogyi, Szilvia. "Az esztergomi szinodális könyvről: új források, redakciók és szövegtöbbletek nyomában. (Előtanulmány egy disszertációfejezethez)." Magyar Könyvszemle 135 (2019): 1-17. [link]
  • Somogyi, Szilvia. "Das spätmittelalterliche Synodalbuch der Diözese von Gran." Annales Historiae Conciliorum 50, no. 2 (2020): 395-416.
  • Stow, Kenneth R. Feeding the Eternal City: Jewish and Christian Butchers in the Roman Ghetto. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2024.
  • West, Charles. "The Earliest Form and Function of the 'Admonitio synodalis'." Frühmittelalterliche Studien 57, no. 1 (2023): 347-380.
  • Woelki, Thomas. "Die fürsorgliche Kirche? Kinderschutz und oppressio puerorum in mittelalterlichen Synodalstatuten." In Synodalis consonantia. Konziliengeschichte als Spiegelbild kirchlicher Diskussionskultur, ed. Filippo Forlani et al., 207-222. Münster: Aschendorff, 2024.