Ennio Cortese and Manlio Bellomo Erice 2002

"The concept of the Ius commune is almost unknown in Anglo-American scholarship .  .  . However, the fusion of Roman, canon, and feudal law produced a ius commune and a common jurisprudence in Europe between 1100 and 1800." Manlio Bellomo, The Common Legal Past of Europe 1000-1800 (1995) xi