Download or read book Canon Law, the Expansion of Europe, and World Order written by James Muldoon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1998 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dozen articles published over the past three decades explore such topics as the canonists and the legitimacy of secular power, the contribution of the Medieval canon lawyers to the formation of international law, the Avignon papacy and the frontiers of Christendom as revealed by Vatican Register 62, the development of group rights, applying a Medieval theory of world order in the 17th century, and the Spanish search for global order in the conquest of the Americas. Three final essays look at the English occupation of Ireland as a model for the later expansion into the Americas. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR