V. Leges fundamentales: Gesetze, die gleicher sind als andere? Vom Inhalt zum Begriff

Mathias Schmoeckel

doi:10.1515/zrgk-2021-0005

V. Leges fundamentales: Gesetze, die gleicher sind als andere? Vom Inhalt zum Begriff

Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte Kanonistische Abteilung ◽

10.1515/zrgk-2021-0005 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 107 (1) ◽

pp. 219-254

Author(s):

Mathias Schmoeckel

Keyword(s):

Middle Ages ◽

Christian Tradition ◽

Central Authority ◽

European Heritage ◽

The Middle Ages

Abstract Leges fundamentals: Laws Higher than Others? Their Development from the Concept to the Term. This article investigates the tradition of laws with a higher, central authority, which can be found in the Christian tradition from the Middle Ages to the 16th century, when the Calvinist party finally coined the term “loi fondamentale”. The contrast to other national discussions shows the different starting points and contents of a notion, which rapidly became a common European heritage and merged with the equally new concept of “constitution”.

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Franklin T. Harkins and Aaron Canty, eds., A Companion to Job in the Middle Ages (Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition 73). Boston and Leiden: Brill, 2017. Pp. xiii, 482; 12 black-and-white figures and 3 diagrams. $258. ISBN: 978-90-04-32443-5.Table of contents available online at https://brill.com/abstract/title/20075

Speculum ◽

10.1086/701893 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 94 (2) ◽

pp. 537-538

Author(s):

Paul M. Blowers

Keyword(s):

Middle Ages ◽

Christian Tradition ◽

Black And White ◽

The Middle Ages

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A Reading of Robert De Boron

PMLA ◽

10.2307/460841 ◽

1965 ◽

Vol 80 (5) ◽

pp. 499-507

Author(s):

Mary E. Giffin

Keyword(s):

Middle Ages ◽

Christian Tradition ◽

Arthurian Literature ◽

Robert De Boron ◽

The Middle Ages

In writing the chapter on “The Work of Robert de Boron and the Didot Perceval” for Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages, Pierre Le Gentil shows that many questions remain unanswered for readers of the Metrical Joseph. Beyond the statements which we understand as the poet's—that at the time when he told the story of the graal he was with his lord Gautier de Montbéliard in peace, that no one had yet told the story, and that he intends to continue with stories of Alain, Petrus, Moyses, and Bron—we have been guided in our reading largely by conjecture. From the fragment of the Merlin which follows the Metrical Joseph in MS. fr. 20047 of the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, we can see that the poet places the two works within the concept of the struggle between Christ and Satan for the soul of man. Several of his sources have been pointed out; but beyond a few conclusions from the text itself, a reader wonders at the strange combination of Christian tradition and Celtic legend which Robert de Boron has effected in these two works. Discussions have been complicated by manuscripts of works related in various ways to the poems of MS. fr. 20047, and by the proliferation of stories of the Grail following Robert de Boron's Christianization of Celtic stories which had been circulating for about a hundred years before his time.

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