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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      September 2009
      November 2000
      ISBN:
      9780511496639
      9780521632645
      9780521044653
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511496639
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.565kg, 268 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.404kg, 268 Pages
      • Subjects:
      British History 1066-1450, Area Studies, European History 1000-1450, History, Religion, European Studies, Church History
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series (49)
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    Subjects:
    British History 1066-1450, Area Studies, European History 1000-1450, History, Religion, European Studies, Church History
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series (49)
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    This book offers perspectives on the legal and intellectual developments of the twelfth century. Gratian's collection of Church law, the Decretum, was a key text in these developments. Compiled in around 1140, it remained a fundamental work throughout and beyond the Middle Ages. Until now, the many mysteries surrounding the creation of the Decretum have remained unsolved, thereby hampering exploration of the jurisprudential renaissance of the twelfth century. Professor Winroth has now discovered the original version of the Decretum, which has long lain unnoticed among medieval manuscripts, in a version about half as long as the final text. It is also different from the final version in many respects - for example, with regard to the use of of Roman law sources - enabling a reconsideration of the resurgence of law in the twelfth century.

    Awards

    Winner of the Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication 2003

    Reviews

    '… he deserves credit for not only breathing life into the two-recension theory, but articulating it in such a manner that it will now stand as the thesis to be argued against.'

    Source: D'histoire Ecclésiastique

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