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The Collection in Seventy-Four Titles : A Canon Law Manual of the Gregorian Reform

1980

This type of collection tended to dominate the period from the fifth to the ninth century, but from that time onwards the systematic collections (the earliest being the fifth- century Statuta ecclesiae antiqua) came into prominence and were in command in the eleventh century.4 Throughout the history of the Church, the clergy were expected to know the canons - Nulli sacerdotum suos licet canones ig [...] By the 1040s dissatisfaction with the moral abuses of clerical marriage and simony, uncertainty about reordination of heretical and schismatic clergy, sacramental disputes on the nature of the eucharist, political and religious conflict between East and West, and concern about lay influence in the church, especially in the matter of clerical elections, had created tension and stresses within the C [...] To these reformers the ancient precepts of the gospels, of the early fathers of the church, and of the popes had been disregarded by laity and clergy alike. [...] Leo's statements on the Roman primacy to the eastern church and to the bishops of Africa through letters possibly drafted by Humbert of Silva- Candida and Gregory's claim in the first chapter of the Dictatus papae "That the Roman Church was founded by God alone" echo one and the same note.8 Moreover, Gregory himself, as the young Archdeacon Hildebrand, was active at Rome in the 1050s and was a par [...] Yet the criticism is partly misplaced, especially since it tends to have an a prioristic notion of the nature of the eleventh-century reform, and subsequently classifies the canonical collections in the light of its own assumptions.40 For example, the negative form of tit.
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Authors

John Gilchrist

Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-252) and indexes
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CaOOCEL
Dewey Decimal Classification Number
262.9/22
Dewey Decimal Edition Number
19
General Note
Translation of Diversorum patrum sententiae Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
ISBN
0888442718 9781771102087
LCCN
BV760.2
LCCN Item number
D52 1980eb
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CaBNVSL
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DLC
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1 electronic text (xiv, 288 p.)
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CaOOCEL
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Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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(CaBNVSL)thg00604330 (OCoLC)431552194 (CaOOCEL)420555
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Mode of access: World Wide Web
Title proper/short title
Canon law manual of the Gregorian reform
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DLC

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