Arvind Thomas, and the Reinvention of Church Law in the Late Middle Ages. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019. xiv, 267 pp.

As the law and literature movement in law schools reminded us several decades ago and Hans-Georg Gadamer before that, law and literature share much cultural work in common: they tackle some of the same communal problems; they interpret and revise norms for conduct; they evaluate written sources; they weigh what constitutes authority; and they both use and invite similar hermeneutical methods. This is especially so with medieval canon law and