The Treatise on Laws (Decretum DD. 1-20) with the Ordinary Gloss (Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Canon Law, Volume 2)
The Treatise on Laws (Decretum DD. 1-20) with the Ordinary Gloss (Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Canon Law, Volume 2)
Augustine Thompson
James Gordley
introduction by Katherine Christensen
Copyright Date: 1993
Published by: Catholic University of America Press
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The Treatise on Laws (Decretum DD. 1-20) with the Ordinary Gloss (Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Canon Law, Volume 2)
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  1. Front Matter
    Front Matter (pp. i-iv)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt3fgqjt.1
  2. Table of Contents
    Table of Contents (pp. v-vi)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt3fgqjt.2
  3. TRANSLATORS’ PREFACE
    TRANSLATORS’ PREFACE (pp. vii-viii)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt3fgqjt.3
  4. INTRODUCTION
    INTRODUCTION (pp. ix-xxvii)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt3fgqjt.4

    The text presented in English in this volume is the introductory section of a textbook on Church law from the Middle Ages. In the hundreds of years since it first came into circulation in the middle of the twelfth century, this textbook, formally entitled the Harmony of Discordant Canons, has helped to shape the thinking of lawyers and legal scholars, clergy including popes from Alexander III to John Paul II, and, however indirectly, lay people of all standings. For the canonist, it was long the starting point of study, a fundamental text to be mastered and made an integral part...

  5. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (pp. xxviii-xxviii)
    A.T., J.G. and K.C.
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt3fgqjt.5
  6. THE TREATISE ON LAWS
    THE TREATISE ON LAWS (pp. 1-86)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt3fgqjt.6

    The correction of the decrees and texts collected by Gratian had been very advisedly taken up by certain of the Roman pontiffs who preceded us because the text had become exceedingly marred by errors and corrupt readings. Although cardinals of the holy Roman Church had been appointed for this, and the task had been entrusted to the other very learned men who had been recruited, many diverse obstacles have hitherto delayed it. Now that the most ancient codices have been brought from everywhere and collated with the authors whose testimony Gratian used, those passages where anything had been miscopied have...

  7. NOTES TO THE DECRETUM
    NOTES TO THE DECRETUM (pp. 87-112)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt3fgqjt.7
  8. NOTES TO THE GLOSS
    NOTES TO THE GLOSS (pp. 113-116)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt3fgqjt.8
  9. GLOSSARY
    GLOSSARY (pp. 117-121)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt3fgqjt.9
  10. JURISTS IN THE GLOSS
    JURISTS IN THE GLOSS (pp. 122-123)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt3fgqjt.10
  11. BIBLIOGRAPHY
    BIBLIOGRAPHY (pp. 124-131)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt3fgqjt.11
  12. Back Matter
    Back Matter (pp. 132-132)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt3fgqjt.12
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