tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post4927114663245164643..comments2024-03-19T07:48:54.021-06:00Comments on Gus Van Horn: Friday HodgepodgeGus Van Hornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-37422226967093890602020-02-14T07:55:37.248-06:002020-02-14T07:55:37.248-06:00Thanks for pointing these books out.Thanks for pointing these books out.Gus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-37062284879877412562020-02-14T07:03:57.340-06:002020-02-14T07:03:57.340-06:00Yo, Gus, you quote, "To digest it all, James ...Yo, Gus, you quote, "To digest it all, James A Brundage, a scholar of the Crusades, aggregated the complex rules about sex into this excellent flowchart..." He's far more than a scholar of the Crusades; I mostly know him as a historian of medieval law and of medieval sexuality, and a demmed fine one. I seem to remember entertaining you with some of the provisions of late Roman laws he discussed in his <i>Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe</i> at coffee one weekend at La Madeleine at Rice. The consistently repeated provision that seemed odd to us moderns was strict prohibitions and harsh punishments against grave-robbing and tomb-breaking. In any case, his books on canon law in the Middle Ages, especially <i>The Practice and Profession of Medieval Canon Law</i>, are the books of his I've read most recently. (I see from an online check that he even has a book on canon law and the Crusades, <i>The Crusades, Holy War and Canon Law</i>. That's one I wouldn't mind getting a copy of in my hot little hands!)Snedcatnoreply@blogger.com