Sacri canones editandi. Canon Law Sources and Their Editions – Call For Papers

I am seeking essay proposals for an edited volume titled Sacri canones editandi. Canon Law Sources and Their Editions. The volume will focus on issues of publication of medieval canon law sources deposited in the archives and in library manuscript collections. Sources and source editions from the whole of Europe will be in the focus of attention. The theme will be approached from a broad perspective ranging from diplomatic sources via regulatory to narrative sources.

List of themes:

I. Sources of diplomatic nature

Documents/charters, notary instruments. – Publication of documents from the Vatican archives. Publication of edited documents of church law nature in the diplomataria and regesta. – Official books: copiaria and registers of church institutions, i.e. the papal chair, archiepiscopates, episcopates, chapters, monasteries/convents; court books, confirmation books, erection books, ordinance books etc. – Issues of editing and publication. Specific issues of editing and publication of diplomatic sources in connection with documents of canon law. Existing editions, their origins and history. Projects.

II. Normative sources

Papal codes, private collections of canon law, legatine, provincial and diocesan statutes, chapter statutes, visitation statutes. – Issues of editing and publication, formulation of editing rules. Specific issues of editing of normative sources. Projects. Manuscripts, text affiliation.

III. Medieval Canon Law Literature

Canon tracts, glosses, legal handbooks, penitentiary handbooks, university lectures, sermons of canonists. Quotations of and references to canon law sources in teology tract literature. – Issues of editing and publication, formulation of editing rules. Specific issues of editing and publication of canon law literature. Projects. Manuscripts, text affiliation.

The book will be published by the Institute of History, Czech Academy of Science, which will cover the costs of the issue (the contributors will not have to pay anything). The book will be included in the series Opera Instituti historici Pragae, following the volume Sacri canones servandi sunt. Ius canonicus et status ecclesiae saeculis XIII-XV (ed. P. Krafl, 2008). The volume will be dedicated to the memory of Czech legal historian doc. JUDr. Jiří Kejř, DrSc. (*1921, †2015). Please find instructions for the contribution preparation below. Please communicate the titles of your contributions by 29 February, 2016 to krafl@seznam.cz. The closing date for acceptance of contributions to the volume will be 31 July, 2016.

Instructions for the contribution preparation

Please send your articles to the volume to the following address:
doc. dr. Pavel Krafl, Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences, Veveří 97, CZ-602 00 Brno, Czech Republic, e-mail: krafl@seznam.cz

Deadline: 31 July, 2016

  • Length of individual articles: 3–30 standard pages
  • Languages: English
  • Word processor: Microsoft Word
  • Font: Times New Roman; size 12; line spacing 1.5
  • Annotation in the form of footnotes
  • Sources in the text should be quoted using quotation marks.
  • Footnote symbols should always be placed after punctuation.

Method of citing literature in footnotes:

  • James A. BRUNDAGE, Medieval Canon Law, London – New York 1995, p. 67.
  • Maurice KEEN, The law of war in the late Modern Ages, London 1965, p. 34.
  • Regesta diplomatica nec non epistolaria Bohemiae et Moraviae, V/3, ed. Jana ZACHOVÁ, Praha 2000, no. 85, p. 56.
  • Thomas WÜNSCH, Ius commune in Schlesien – das Beispiel des kanonischen Rechts (13.-15. Jahrhunderts), in: Lux Romana w Europie Środkowej ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem Śląska, ed. Antoni Barciak, Katowice 2001, p. 109-127.
  • Jiří KEJŘ, Die kirchengeschichtliche Forschung in Böhmen und Mähren, ZRG 112, Kan. Abt. 81, 1995, p. 328.

Repeated quotations:

  • M. KEEN, The law of war, p. 68.
  • J. KEJŘ, Die kirchengeschichtliche Forschung, p. 329.
  • Ibidem, p. 56.
  • RBM V., no. 45, p. 67.

Method of citing archive sources in footnotes:

  • Archive sources should be cited in the following order: (1) name and locality of archive, (2) name of archive fund, (3) press mark and (4) inventory number.
    Example: National Archives Prague, Benedictines Břevnov, sign. A g 6, inv. no. 456.
  • Repeated quotations: NA Prague, Ben. Břevnov, sign. B 7 b, inv. no. 764.
  • Please include a list of journal, collection, edition, edition series and archive abbreviations used in your contribution at the end of the text.
  • A list of used bibliography will be supplemented to the book. Add a list of bibliography that you quoted in your paper, please. Provide data on the entire page extent of the cited item particularly for articles in journals and collections.