There are three methods described in the Introduction to the volume by which papal correspondence have come down to us. The legally important documents in this volume were originally compiled by private initiative, later on, in the 13th century, officially acknowledges by the curia (Gregory IX) and used as law books in the church courts and as text books in the Universities. Papal letters transmitted in this way may be called decretals, epistolœ decretales. In most cases a decretal is nothing but an ordinary papal letter which happened to attract the attention of a compiler because some principle of law was expressed in it.
Adapted from the Introduction.
Adapted from the Introduction.
Volume 47 Papal; Decretals Relating to the Diocese of Lincoln in the Twelfth Century
Editor Edited with an introduction on the sources by Walther Holtzmann, professor in Bonn with translations of the texts and an iontrduction on the Canon Law and its administration in the twelfth century by Eric Waldram Kemp, Canon of Lincoln and Prebendary of Caistor, Fellow and Chaplain of Exeter College, Oxford
Date For the year ending 31st August 1951
Publication Date 1954
Size 255 x 155 mm
Language Latin with the English translation on the facing page
Printer The Hereford Times Limited, Hereford
Content Preface, 1 page
General Editor’s Note, 1 page
Introduction, 20 pages
The Decretals, 60 pages (30 Latin, 30 English)
Index, 3 pages
Description There are three methods described in the Introduction to the volume by which papal correspondence have come down to us. The legally important documents in this volume were originally compiled by private initiative, later on, in the 13th century, officially acknowledges by the curia (Gregory IX) and used as law books in the church courts and as text books in the Universities. Papal letters transmitted in this way may be called decretals, epistolœ decretales. In most cases a decretal is nothing but an ordinary papal letter which happened to attract the attention of a compiler because some principle of law was expressed in it.
Adapted from the Introduction.
Editor Edited with an introduction on the sources by Walther Holtzmann, professor in Bonn with translations of the texts and an iontrduction on the Canon Law and its administration in the twelfth century by Eric Waldram Kemp, Canon of Lincoln and Prebendary of Caistor, Fellow and Chaplain of Exeter College, Oxford
Date For the year ending 31st August 1951
Publication Date 1954
Size 255 x 155 mm
Language Latin with the English translation on the facing page
Printer The Hereford Times Limited, Hereford
Content Preface, 1 page
General Editor’s Note, 1 page
Introduction, 20 pages
The Decretals, 60 pages (30 Latin, 30 English)
Index, 3 pages
Description There are three methods described in the Introduction to the volume by which papal correspondence have come down to us. The legally important documents in this volume were originally compiled by private initiative, later on, in the 13th century, officially acknowledges by the curia (Gregory IX) and used as law books in the church courts and as text books in the Universities. Papal letters transmitted in this way may be called decretals, epistolœ decretales. In most cases a decretal is nothing but an ordinary papal letter which happened to attract the attention of a compiler because some principle of law was expressed in it.
Adapted from the Introduction.