Prefaces to Canon Law Books in Latin Christianity: Selected Translations, 500-1245

From: The Catholic Historical Review | Date: October 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

Prefaces to Canon Law Books in Latin Christianity: Selected Translations, 500-1245. Commentary and translations by Robert Somerville and Bruce C. Brasington. (New Haven:Yale University Press. 1998. Pp. viii, 247. $30.00.)

Canon law defines the institutional Church, as Somerville and Brasington note in their introduction, and churchmen began to compile collections of the canons almost from the outset of the Church's history. It soon became conventional for practitioners of this craft to include introductory statements in which they typically described the scope and sources of their ...

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