Thirty years ago, Richard H Helmholz, the distinguished American legal historian, wrote a seminal work about whether Roman canon law survived in England after the Reformation. It is a masterful study of the records of the courts of the established Church and the professional literature of their practitioners. In it, Professor Helmholz rebuts Stubbs and Maitland by showing how English ecclesiastical lawyers continued to look to the mediaeval foreign papal canon law and native provincial laws (such as synodal, archiepiscopal and legatine legislation). While their decline after the Reformation might have been expected, Helmholz teaches us how these sources, and later Continental civilian and canonist literature, continued to be invoked by English lawyers. As such, he puts into brilliant relief the wide intellectual horizons associated with ecclesiastical law prevalent in England from the 1530s to the 1640s. From the late seventeenth century, however, there were those in England who looked also to the Byzantine canon law of the Eastern Orthodox Church as a source of jurisprudence. They could do so largely because of the spadework of someone very worthy to be rediscovered as an Anglican priest-jurist: William Beveridge (1637–1708). What follows explores his life and career, his influence on the development of canonical thinking in the Eastern Orthodox Church, how he used law in his sermons, and the subsequent use of Beveridge by English ecclesiastical lawyers.

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威廉·贝弗里奇 (1637–1708)

三十年前，著名的美国法律史学家理查德·H·赫尔姆霍尔茨 (Richard H Helmholz) 写了一部开创性的著作，论述了宗教改革后罗马教会法是否在英国幸存下来。这是对已建立教会法院记录及其从业者专业文献的精湛研究。在其中，Helmholz 教授反驳了 Stubbs 和 Maitland，展示了英国教会律师如何继续关注中世纪的外国教皇教规法和当地的省级法律（例如主教、大主教和法定立法）。虽然他们在宗教改革之后的衰落是意料之中的，但赫尔姆霍尔茨告诉我们这些资料以及后来的大陆平民和教规文学如何继续被英国律师引用。因此，他将与 1530 年代至 1640 年代在英格兰盛行的教会法相关的广阔知识领域展现得淋漓尽致。然而，从 17 世纪后期开始，英格兰也有人将东正教的拜占庭教会法视为法理学的来源。他们之所以能够这样做，主要是因为一位非常值得重新发现为英国国教牧师法学家的人的工作：威廉·贝弗里奇（William Beveridge，1637-1708 年）。接下来探讨了他的生活和事业，他对东正教教会正统思想发展的影响，他如何在布道中使用法律，以及随后英国教会律师对贝弗里奇的使用。在英格兰，有些人也将东正教的拜占庭教会法视为法学来源。他们之所以能够这样做，主要是因为一位非常值得重新发现为英国国教牧师法学家的人的工作：威廉·贝弗里奇（William Beveridge，1637-1708 年）。接下来探讨了他的生活和事业，他对东正教教会正统思想发展的影响，他如何在布道中使用法律，以及随后英国教会律师对贝弗里奇的使用。在英格兰，有些人也将东正教的拜占庭教会法视为法学来源。他们之所以能够这样做，主要是因为一位非常值得重新发现为英国国教牧师法学家的人的工作：威廉·贝弗里奇（William Beveridge，1637-1708 年）。接下来探讨了他的生活和事业，他对东正教教会正统思想发展的影响，他如何在布道中使用法律，以及随后英国教会律师对贝弗里奇的使用。