Early Canon Law

Bibliography

Recent Surveys of the History of Canon Law

Brundage, James A. Medieval Canon Law. The Medieval World. London-New York: Longman, 1995.

Erdö, Péter. Storia della scienza del diritto canonico: Una introduzione. Roma: Editrice Pontificia Università Gregoriana, 2000.

Ferme, Brian Edwin. Introduzione alla storia del diritto canonico: 1: Il diritto antico fino al decretum di Graziano. Quaderni di Apollinaris1. Mursia: Pontificia Università Lateranense, 1998.

Van de Wiel, Constant. History of Canon Law. Louvain Theological and Pastoral Monographs 5. Louvain: Peeters Press, 1991.

History of Medieval Canon Law, edd. W. Hartmann and K. Pennington

1. Kéry, Lotte. Canonical Collections of the Early Middle Ages (ca. 400-1140): A Bibliographical Guide to the Manuscripts and Literature. History of Medieval Canon Law. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University Press of America, 1999.

Replaces two earlier works:

Frederick Maassen, Geschichte der Quellen und Literatur des canonischen Rechts im Abendland, 1; Die Rechtssammlungen bis zur Mitte des 9. Jahrhunderts (Graz 1870, reprinted Graz 1965)

Fournier, Paul and Le Bras, Gabriel, Histoire des collections canoniques en Occident depuis les fausses décrétales jusqu'au Décret de Gratien (2 vols. Bibliothèque de l'histoire du droit, 4-5; Paris: 1931-1932, reprinted Aalen: 1972)

2. Detlev, Jasper and Fuhrmann, Horst. Papal Letters in the Early Middle Ages. History of Medieval Canon Law. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University Press of America, 2001.

Older Histories of Canon Law

Gaudemet, Jean and Le Bras, Gabriel, Histoire du droit et des institutions de l'Eglise en Occident (13 Vols. Paris 1955- 1995)

Vol. 2: Jean Dauvillier, Les Temps apostoliques: 1er siècle (Paris: Sirey, 1970)

Vol. 3: Jean Gaudemet, L'Église dans l'Empire romain : IVe-Ve siècles (Paris: Sirey, [1958])

Vol. 5: Jean Imbert, Les temps carolingiens, 741-891: L'église, les institutions (2 Volumes; [Paris]: Cujas, 1994-1996)

Vol. 7: Gabriel Le Bras, Charles Lefebvre, Jacqueline Rambaud, L'âge classique : 1140-1378: Sources et théorie du droit (Paris: Sirey, c1965)

Vol. 8.2: Jean Gaudemet, Le Gouvernement de l'Église à l'époque classique: Le gouvernement local (Paris : Éditions Cujas, 1979)

Vol. 10: Jean Hourlier, L'âge classique, 1140-1378: Les religieux ([Paris] : Cujas, 1974)

Schulte, Johann Friedrich von. Die Geschichte der Quellen und Literatur des canonischen Rechts von Gratian bis auf die Gegenwart (3 Vols. Stuttgart: 1875-1880, reprinted Graz: 1956 and Union, N.J. 2000)

Most Important Journals, Serials, and Reference Works

ACO

Acta conciliorum oecumenicorum

AHC

Annuarium historiae conciliorum

AHP

Archivum historiae pontificiae

AKKR

Archiv für katholisches Kirchenrecht

BMCL

Bulletin of Medieval Canon Law, New series

DDC

Dictionnaire de droit canonique (7 Vols. Paris: 1924-
1965

DHGE

Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques (Paris: 1909-)

LThK

Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche (14 Vols. Freiburg im Breisgau 1957-1968)

RDC

Revue de droit canonique

RHD

Revue historique de droit français et étranger

RDIC

Rivista internazionale di diritto comune

SG

Studia Gratiana

TRE

Theologische Realenzyklopädie

TRG

Tijdschrift voor rechtsgeschiedenis

ZKG

Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte

ZRG Kan.Abt.

Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte, Kanonistische Abteilung,

Ius canonicum

Rudolph Sohm, Kirchenrecht (Munich-Leipzig 1892, 2 ed. edited by E. Jacobi and O. Mayer Munich-Leipzig 1923). The dispute is dealt with extensively by H. Barion, Rudolph Sohm und die Grundlegung des Kirchenrechts (Tübingen 1931), Dieter Stoodt, Wort und Recht: Rudolph Sohm und das theologische Problem des Kirchenrechts (Munich 1962) and R. Sebott, Fundamentalkanonistik (Frankfurt 1993).

Yves Congar, "Rudolph Sohm nous interroge encore," Revue des sciences philosophiques et théologiques 57 (1973) 263-294

1. Charismatic Period (to ca. 300 A.D.)

2. Sacramental Law (to ca. 1200)

3. Jurisdictional Law

Collections of the Pseudo-Apostles (Didachè[Doctrina duodecim apostolorum], Constitutiones Apostolicae, Didascalia)

Conciliar canons

First collections of conciliar canons (Syntagma canonum ca. 342-381 A.D. [East ]

1, Ancyra 314

2. Antioch 341

3. Gangra 341

4. Laodicea 343-380

5. Nicaea 325

Corpus canon Africanum-Romanum ca. 420

Council of Nicaea translated from Greek to Latin ca. 350-420.

Papal Decretals

Charles Duggan, NCE 4.707-708:

The term decretal, epistola decretalis, or littera decretalis describes a letter containing a papal ruling in response to an appeal (rescript).

The earliest decretals were litterae praeceptoriae modeled on Roman law.

Legal force of decretals. Decretals collected in 5th century (not Siricius')

Decretal of Pope Siricius to Bishop Himerius of Tarragona (385 A.D.)

Collectio Dionysiana (ca. 500) Conciliar canons and decretals arranged chronologically. Compiled by Dionysius Exiguus in Rome. 34 manuscripts

Collectio Sanblasiana (ca. 520). Conciliar canons and decretals arranged chronologically. Italy or Rome 7 manuscripts (Köln, Lucca, Paris (3), Reichenau (Sankt Paul im Lavanttal)

Codices Electronici Ecclesiae Coloniensis (CEEC)

Erzbischöflichen Diözesan- und Dombibliothek Köln

http://www.ceec.uni-koeln.de/

Systematic collections:

Cresconius, Concordia canonum (ca. 550 A.D.) K. Zechiel-Eckes, Die Concordia canonum des Cresconius: Studien und Edition (2 Vols. Freiburger Beiträge zur Mittelalterlichen Geschichte 5; Frankfurt 1992) 32 manuscripts

Collectio Vetus Gallica (ca. 585-626 A.D.) Hubert Mordek, Kirchrecht und Reform im Frankenreich: Die Collectio Vetus Gallica (Berlin-New York 1975) 23 Manuscripts

Collectio Hibernensis (ca. 700 A.D.) 86 manuscripts

Collectio Dacheriana (ca. 800) Agobard of Lyon? 56 manuscripts

1. Translations of Bishops

Council of Sardica (343) c. 1

Ne cui liceat episcopo de civitate sua ad aliam transire civitatem

Nulli episcopo liceat episcopo de civitate ad civitatem transferri

2. Bishops and monasteries

Council of Chalcedon (451) c. 24

1. Quae semel dedicata sunt monasteria consilio episcoporum, maneant perpetuo monasteria

2. Quae semel dedicata sunt monasteria voluntate episcoporum, maneant perpetuo monasteria

3. Quae semel dedicata sunt monasteria iudicio episcoporum, maneant perpetuo monasteria