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Roman law, "(so called in contrast to customary law and municipal statutory
law, which were not typically subjects of formal study in university law facul
ties)" and the meaning of the ius commune are particularly well analyzed.
The next chapter demonstrates the extent to which canon law affected the
private life of individuals. "Church courts exercised jurisdiction, for example,
over marriage and the termination of marriage, the legitimacy of children, all
types of sexual conduct, commercial and financial behaviour, the legitimate
times and conditions of labour, poor relief, wills and testaments and burial of
the dead" (p. 71).The chapter on public life explains how"out of the elaboration
of canonical corporation theory, emerged some novel political ideas that have
subsequently become basic to modern Western notions about constitutional
government" (p. 104).Two chapters deal with church courts and procedure and
with canonical jurisprudence. A final chapter explores the widespread ramifi
cations of canon law in Western societies.
John E. Lynch
The Catholic University of America
This is another in the Variorum series of collected studies containing, like the
others, reprints of the author's articles culled from disparate and often hard-to
find sources.These span the period from 1962 to 1994 and demonstrate Math
ews' continued interest in the interrelated areas of liturgy, architecture, and
church decoration. The author's brief introduction acknowledges that addi
tional debate on some of these topics has taken place in print, and that at least
one of his studies "requires modification" in the light of later archaeological
work. Unfortunately, even though only three of the included studies postdate
1986, the introduction refers to fewer than a dozen additional titles (two by
Mathews himself) that update the research here. The book is extensively illus
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trated with black-and-white prints of varying quality, and there is a brief index.
Numerous typographical errors in the original articles have not been corrected.
Studies I-III deal with architecture and liturgy: "An early Roman chancel
arrangement and its liturgical uses," "Architecture and liturgy in the earliest
palace churches of Constantinople" (translated from its original publication in
French), and "'Private' liturgy in Byzantine architecture: toward a re-appraisal."
The latter study in particular remains fundamental, but all of them demonstrate
the author's familiarity with Greek and Latin texts as well as with archaeologi
cal material.
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