Ubertus became bishop of Chiusi in 1146.
Noonan, "Gratian Slept" 153-154: "While
his abbatial title is only slightly older than his Camaldolese habit,
Gratian has been recognized as a bishop since the twelfth century. The
Chronicon of Robert de Torigny abbot of Mont-Saint-Michel, writing sometime
between 1162 and 1184, identifies Gratian positively as 'episcopus Clusinus'
or bishop of Chiusi . . . <fn>Anonymous, Gloss on MSS of
Concordia discordantium canonum: Ghent, Bibl. Commun, et Univ. 55;
Paris B.N. 3884; Trier 906; Mazarine 1289; Rouen 707; Montecassino 66; Pommersfelden 2744; London, Beatty 46, all as reported in <Kuttner>
Repertorium, 14." |
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This scenario (i.e. Gratian's episcopal office ca. 1143) would fit well with what we may learn about
Gratian from the Decretum itself. He would have taught the first recension
in Bologna at least during the first years of the 1140s.
Perhaps he only
taught the Decretum once. Indeed, the work as it appears in
the first recension looks unfinished, since it does not treat baptism,
confirmation,
and the consecration of churches, subjects which one would think would have
interested the practical theologian Gratian. Did he become bishop before he
had finished his course the first time he taught it?
There is no reason to
assume, as is often done, that Gratian must necessarily have had a very long
teaching career.
Indeed, as
nobody in the schools remembered very much about
him, there might be good reasons to assume that his teaching career was
rather short.
Anders Winroth, "Where Gratian Slept: The Life and Death
of the Father of Canon Law, "
Zeitschrift der
Savingy-Stiftung für
Rechtsgeschichte, Kan. Abt.
99 (2014) 105-128 at 125-126.
Early gloss on the beginning of
the Decretum found in ca. nine manuscripts: "Concordia discordantium canonum iuxta determinationem
Gratiani episcopi que in duas partes principaliter est diuisa" Stephan Kuttner, "Research on Gratian: Acta and Agenda," Proceedings of the
Seventh International Congress of Medieval Canon Law Cambridge, 23-27 July
1984 (Vatican City 1988) 3-26 at 8
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