Development of the legal thinking during theInvestiture Conrtest., especially under the Salic Kingdom

Research Project

Project/Area Number	25380003
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Section	一般
Research Field	Fundamental law
Research Institution	The University of Tokyo
Principal Investigator	Yoichi Nishikawa 東京大学, 法学(政治学)研究科(研究院), 教授 (00114596)
Project Period (FY)	2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
Budget Amount *help	¥2,860,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥660,000) Fiscal Year 2015: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000) Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000) Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Keywords	叙任権闘争 / ザーリアー王権 / カノン法 / カノン法学
Outline of Final Research Achievements	The (chanceries of the) Salic emperors were influenced and have adopted the refined legal thinking that was the product of the theoretical and doctrinal debates among the clerics during the Investiture Contest. They began to utilize legal arguments and logic that was on a higher level than under the preceding Ottonian kingdoms. We can observe the tendency that the chanceries began to mobilize arguments and logic that were much more clearer than in the past in order to deal with the increasing intensity of the fierce conflicts in material interests and in religious ideas. These refined legal argumentation led also to the growth of the authority of the imperial power and contributed to the consolidation of the "Reich". In this way, the era of the Investiture Contest laid the intellectual foundation for the growing institutionalization and legalization under the Hohenstaufen monarchs.