Creating and Sharing Legal Knowledge in the Twelfth Century Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 673 and Its Context

• Other Authors: Dusil, Stephan (Editor), Thier, Andreas (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Brill 2022
• Subjects: History; Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500; Church history; Legal history; bologna; canon law; church history; cultures of writing in the middle ages; decretum gratiani; evolution of knowledge in the middle ages; glosses; history of academic teaching; history of media and mediality; knowledge transfer in the middle ages; legal history; manuscript studies; medieval history; medieval readers; palaeography; roman law
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Summary

The Decretum Gratiani is the cornerstone of medieval canon law, and the manuscript St Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 673 an essential witness to its evolution. The studies in this volume focus on that manuscript, providing critical insights into its genesis, linguistic features, and use of Roman Law, while evaluating its attraction to medieval readers and modern scholars. Together, these studies offer a fascinating view on the evolution of the Decretum Gratiani, as well as granting new insights on the complex dynamics and processes by which legal knowledge was first created and then transferred in medieval jurisprudence. Contributors are Enrique de León, Stephan Dusil, Melodie H. Eichbauer, Atria A. Larson, Titus Lenherr, Philipp Lenz, Kenneth Pennington, Andreas Thier, José Miguel Viejo-Ximénez, John C. Wei, and Anders Winroth.

ISBN

9789004519251
9789004428294

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Open Access