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Winroth and others have interpreted Gratian’s dictum at the beginning of Question Six as being proof of St. Gall’s being an abbreviation.45 They assume that the abbreviator fell asleep and forgot that he had omitted Pope Nicholas’s canon and also that he had eliminated Urban’s canons immediately after Nicholas’s.
Gratian's Decretum was the object of commentaries from the middle of the 12th century. Among the first commentators were paucapalea and Roland Bandinelli, who in 1159 became Pope alexander iii. The Decretum was used in the schools of law from the end of the 12th century, and it rapidly achieved a universal recognition that had not been enjoyed ...
Gratian (Latin: Gratianus; 18 April 359 – 25 August 383) was emperor of the Western Roman Empire from 367 to 383. The eldest son of Valentinian I, Gratian, was raised to the rank of Augustus as a child and inherited the West after his father’s death in 375.
Gratian was a 12th-century Benedictine monk and canon lawyer from Bologna. Little is known about him beyond the fact that he compiled and wrote this collection of legal texts, which became the code of canon law used in the Roman Catholic Church until 1918. This copy of the Decretum Gratiani, glossed with Bartholomaeus of Brescia's version of the commentary by Johannes Teutonicus, was printed ...
May 7, 2021 · Gratian was trained to read and interpret the Bible and theological classics, such as works of St. Augustine, St. Jerome, and other church fathers. 5. Gratian must have come to Bologna as a young man in the 1130s and he began to teach there, not theology as such, but one of the practical applications of theology.
The reign of Gratian and Theodosius I. Following Valentinian’s sudden death in 375, the West was governed by his son Gratian, then 16 years old, who had been given the title of Augustus as early as 367. The Pannonian army, rife with intrigue, quickly proclaimed Gratian’s half-brother, Valentinian II, only four years old.
Who was Gratian? It is hardly necessary to justify the interest of such a question. The Concordia discordantium canonum is one of the most influential law books of all time — a teacher's case book which became, for over 700 years, the law of the Catholic Church; a book which is at the roots of Western legal thought, ecclesiastical and lay; a vast storehouse of prior legislation and judgments ...
