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The African Origins of Western Canon Law. An Investigation into the Corpus canon...
The African Origins of Western Canon Law. An Investigation into the Corpus canonum Africano-Romanum In the proposed project, I aim to prepare a comprehensive study of the most important North African collection of canon law, the Late Antique Corpus canonum Africano-Romanum (CCAR), which is also the oldest known canonical collect... In the proposed project, I aim to prepare a comprehensive study of the most important North African collection of canon law, the Late Antique Corpus canonum Africano-Romanum (CCAR), which is also the oldest known canonical collection of the Western Church. This collection is of fundamental importance, because 1) it had greatly impacted the development of occidental canon law on a textual level (to name but a few collections: Hispana, Dionysio-Hadriana, the Hispana Gallica Augustodunensis and the Decretum Gratiani) 2) it had a long-lasting impact on the perception of Africa in Medieval Western Europe, because its textual material was extremely widely disseminated and used across the continent. Canon law texts are not only sources of legal history, but they can be evaluated as sources of historiography and social history as well; the CCAR is a prime example for how texts have been selected, reshaped and adapted by later generations. These observations also lead to several questions, which shall be addressed: To what extent is the CCAR transmitted in mss. alongside texts of African church fathers? What documents have been revised when copying the CCAR, which African texts have been omitted, rearranged, annotated? Has the legitimacy and authenticity of the African canons been contested or doubted in later periods? What role did Africa play in the imagined landscape of Western Christianity and Latin canon law? As ties between Western Europe and North Africa had become severed, did it follow that the now essentially decontextualized African material could be reinterpreted or even manipulated for one’s own purposes? In other words: in what ways does the textual shape of the CCAR derive from later scribes and compilers making liberal use of the past? On the basis of the CCAR, I will set out to to trace and evaluate the reception of selected North African canons both within the broader context of Western canon law and in the context of societal processes defined by it. ver más
31/08/2025
199K€
Duración del proyecto: 27 meses Fecha Inicio: 2023-05-02
Fecha Fin: 2025-08-31

Línea de financiación: concedida

El organismo HORIZON EUROPE notifico la concesión del proyecto el día 2023-05-02
Línea de financiación objetivo El proyecto se financió a través de la siguiente ayuda:
Presupuesto El presupuesto total del proyecto asciende a 199K€
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