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to its translation by Caroline Levine. Helmholz's chapter on local ecclesiastical courts in England (Ch. 10) outlines the jurisdiction of the courts and their interaction with secular courts, ground well trodden in his own previous research. Other contributors will be less well known to non-specialists. Barbara Deimling's Chapter 2 illustrates the crossover between the ecclesiastical and secular, documenting the importance of the church portal as a locus of justice for both religious and secular rulers alike in the medieval community up to the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. But this situation changed between the thirteenth and fifteenth century, first in Italy, then in Germany, when the church portal was used less and less as the site for law courts, and lay civic institutions grew in their stead (p. 47). Péter Erdö has long specialised on medieval Hungarian canon law, and his chapter on ecclesiastical procedure in eastern central Europe (Ch. 12) is a welcome addition to an area much understudied. Brigide Schwarz's Chapter 6 on the Roman Curia, the papal court at Rome by which the pope himself dispensed ruling and judicial functions from 1090 up until about 1300, brings light to yet another important but obscure institution. This volume is a welcome addition to recent scholarship on medieval canon law, and indispensable reading for anyone working on medieval court records. Its contributors are among the best in the field and the scholarship is first-rate, usefully supplemented by an extensive "selected" bibliography and general index.
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