The use of canon law in ecclesiastical administration, 1000–1234. Edited by Melodie Eichbauer and Danica Summerlin. (Medieval Law and its Practice, 26.) Pp. xii + 279 incl. 1 table. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2019. €121. 978 90 04 36433 2; 1873 8176

[...]this raises the question of what criteria made some authorities more favourable than others to the commentators. [...]Kathleen Cushing and Louis Hamilton address the legal arguments of the Libelli de lite and the exegesis of Bruno of Segni respectively. Bruce Brasington – offering, as a good canonist should, a commentary and integration of the chapters (dicta Brasingtoni?) – ends by noting that the essays contribute to the destruction of a ‘static’ interpretation of canon law; ‘what is fixed is not easily moved, not easily used’ (a pithy sentence worth squirrelling away for future use).