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Re-Inventing Canon Law: Teaching the Decretals After Trent

This work aims to assess the impact in Louvain of the profound changes that affected canon law on a global scale in the wake of Reformation and Counter-Reformation movements. The reception of the decrees of the Council of Trent will be at the heart of the research. This study will concentrate on the lecture practice and canon law scholarship of two major canonists in Louvain during its Golden Age: Petrus Peckius and Andreas Vallensis.

Date:1 Sep 2020 →  Today
Keywords:Council of Trent, Canon Law, ius commune, Legal History, Early Modern Universities, Lecture Notes, Petrus Peckius, Andreas Vallensis
Disciplines:History of law
Project type:PhD project