@inbook{7574ee753f6a4da4b83adead654583dd,
title = "Hincmar of Reims",
abstract = "Hincmar, archbishop of Reims 845–882, placed strong emphasis on written law, as numerous surviving manuscripts and many treatises attest. This chapter analyzes that emphasis, exploring Hincmar{\textquoteright}s classification of different kinds of legal norms, including church councils, papal decrees, biblical rules, and royal edicts. It then tracks how he applied the law in three case studies: the divorce of King Lothar II in 860; the rebellion of the archbishop{\textquoteright}s own nephew Hincmar, bishop of Laon, in 870; and the Council of Saint-Macre in 881, of which Hincmar was the guiding spirit. Although Hincmar{\textquoteright}s direct influence on legal tradition was relatively small, the chapter argues that his indirect influence was much greater, inasmuch as Hincmar raised the level of legal debate in late-Carolingian Francia.",
keywords = "Hincmar or Reims, Hincmar of Laon, Carolingian, councils, decretals, royal law, trial by ordeal",
author = "Charles West",
year = "2019",
month = jun,
day = "27",
doi = "10.1017/9781108559133.021",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781108471718",
series = "Law and Christianity",
publisher = "Cambridge University Press",
pages = "429--443",
editor = "Reynolds, {Philip L.}",
booktitle = "Great Christian Jurists and Legal Collections in the First Millennium",
address = "United States",
}