Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I. Academic Commentary: Lawyers Interpret the Law
1. Attendentes and Secular Canonesses
2. Cum de quibusdam, Ratio recta, and Beguines
3. Cum ex eo, Sancta Romana, and Tertiaries
Part II. Consilia and Decisiones: Practical Application of Legal Theory
4. Panormitanus and the Inhumati, a Consilium
5. Tertiaries, Canonesses, Beguines, and Case Law
6. The Cologne Defense of the Sisters of the Common Life
Part III. Assessment and Reassessment
7. Medieval Lawyers and Modern Scholars
List of Manuscripts Cited
Bibliography
Index