TY - BOOK ID - 77901150 TI - The making of Gratian's Decretum PY - 2000 SN - 0521044650 0511324723 0511051158 0511117116 051149663X 1280153520 051115075X 0511008732 9780511008733 9780511117114 9780511496639 9780511051159 9781280153525 9780521044653 9780511324727 9780511150753 0521632641 9780521632645 PB - Cambridge [England] New York Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Canon law KW - History. KW - Gratian, KW - Arts and Humanities KW - History KW - Canon law - History KW - Gratian, - active 12th century - Decretum UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77901150 AB - 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. ER -