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28 - Ecclesiastical Law in Early Modern Europe

from Part Three - Topics and Disciplines of Theology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2023

By
Kenneth Pennington
Edited by
Kenneth G Appold  and
Nelson Minnich
Kenneth G Appold
Affiliation:
Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey
Nelson Minnich
Affiliation:
Catholic University of America, Washington DC
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Summary

The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw significant changes in Roman canon law. The libri legales that were taught in the law schools and used in the courts had been compiled in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. After the first half of the fourteenth century popes no longer attempted to shape papal law. After the middle of the fourteenth century the bishops of Rome did not promulgate any more collections of papal court decisions (decretals). They left the development of canonical jurisprudence to the jurists. Together with the Justinian codification of Roman law these libri legales formed the “required books” for every European law-school class.1

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The Cambridge History of Reformation Era Theology , pp. 579 - 603
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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