Reflecting the focus but also range of their honorand's work in medieval canon law in the era before Gratian, the essays in this volume explore the creation and transmission of canonical texts and the motives of their compilers. They also address the issues of how the law was interpreted and used by diverse audiences in the earlier middle ages, with especial focus on the eleventh and early twelfth centuries.

Dr Martin Brett is at Robinson College at the University of Cambridge, UK. Dr Kathleen G. Cushing is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at Keele University, UK.

Contents: Preface; Introduction; The Notitia Galliarum: an unusual Bavarian version, Roger E. Reynolds; Useful guilt: canonists and penance on the Carolingian frontier, Abigail Firey; Authority and the canons in Burchard's Dectreum and Ivo' s Decretum, Greta Austin; The Collection in 74 Titles: a monastic canon law a collection from 11th-century France, Christof Rolker; 'Intermediate' and minor collections: the case of the Collectio Canonum Barberiniana, Kathleen G. Cushing; Poitevin manuscripts, the abbey of Saint-Ruf and ecclesiastical reform in the 11th century, Uta-Renate Blumenthal; Another re-examination of the council of Pisa, 1135, Robert Somerville; Marital consent in Gratian's Decretum, Anders Winroth; Crimina que episcopis inpingere dicis: the contribution of the Collectio Polycarpus to an early Ordo iudiciorum, Bruce C. Brasington; Margin and afterthought: the Clavis in action, Martin Brett; The origins of legal science in England in the 12th century: Lincoln, Oxford and the career of Vacarius, Peter Landau; 'My learned friend': professional etiquette in medieval courtrooms, James A. Brundage; Indexes.