Creating and Sharing Legal Knowledge in the Twelfth Century

Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 673 and Its Context
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-42829-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 35, 268 Seiten, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 690 g

Reihe: Medieval Law and Its Practice

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Dusil, Stephan

Thier, Andreas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

List of Figures

Abbreviations

Contributors1

Part 1: Introducing the Debate

1 Exploring the Evolution of Legal Knowledge in the Middle Ages: The Manuscript Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 673 as Challenge and Chance

Andreas Thier

Part 2: The Origin of Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 673

2 The Codicology, the Palaeography, and the Glossing of Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibiothek, 673 (Sg)

Philipp Lenz

Part 3: Creating Legal Knowledge

3 The Formation of Marriage according to the Sg-Codex = Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 673, 166–169

Enrique de León

4 The Uniqueness of Prima Causa in Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 673

Melodie H. Eichbauer

5 ‘aliis in carceribus et latumiis reclusis’, ‘aliis carcere et ergastulo reclusis’: Special Language Features in the Exserpta ex decretis sanctorum patrum and Their Interpretation

Titus Lenherr

6 A Miracle Story Allegedly in decretis Bonifacii pape

John C. Wei

Part 4: Sharing Legal Knowledge

7 Nota: What the Scribes of Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 673 Found Noteworthy in Gratian’s Decretum

Atria A. Larson

8 Teaching Canon Law in the Early Twelfth Century: The Evidence of Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 673

Kenneth Pennington

9 The Exserpta in the Origins of the Science of Canon Law

José Miguel Viejo-Ximénez

Part 5: Sg in Its Context

10 Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 673 in Context: Twelfth-Century Transformations and Abbreviations of Gratian’s Decretum

Anders Winroth

Part 6: Summarizing Observations

11 Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek 673: a Copy of Gratian’s Decretum at the Beginning of Decretistic Teaching. Fresh Perspectives, New Insights, and Open Questions

Stephan Dusil

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Stephan Dusil, Dr. iur. (Frankfurt, 2005), is Professor at Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen. He has published on different aspects of medieval history, including a book on the history of canon law: Wissensordnungen des Rechts im Wandel. Päpstlicher Jurisdiktionsprimat und Zölibat zwischen 1000 und 1215 (Leuven, 2018).

Andreas Thier, Dr. iur. (Munich, 1997), is Professor at the University of Zurich. He has published on the evolution of legal knowledge since late Antiquity, including "Semantiken des Alten, des Neuen und des Modernen im gelehrten kanonischen Recht" (ZRG KA, 2020).