An Annotated Bibliography of Printed and Online Primary Sources for the Middle Ages
Gratian
flourished
c.
1100-1200
Little is known about the jurist Gratian, neither the dates of his birth and death, his first name, nor (despite an erroneous but long held tradition) his clerical status. Despite the biographical uncertainty, Gratian was acclaimed by Dante as the “Father of Canon Law” for his Harmony of the Discordant Canons, a text which drew together the often conflicting opinions of the church fathers and popes to form a synthesis which became the basis for canon law until 1919.
For additional information, see:
- Domus Gratiani, a website maintained by Anders Winroth (Yale University) devoted to Gratian studies.
OMSB Records by Gratian:
- Kors, Alan Charles; Peters, Edward, eds., Witchcraft in Europe, 400-1700: A Documentary History (The Middle Ages Series, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000).
- Blamires, Alcuin, ed; Pratt, Karen ed.; Marx, C.W. ed., Woman Defamed and Woman Defended: An Anthology of Medieval Texts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992).
- Fairweather, Eugene R., ed., trans., A Scholastic Miscellany: Anselm to Ockham (Philadelphia: The Westminster Press (The Library of Christian Classics volume X), 1956).
- Thompson, Augustine, O.P., ed., trans.; Gordley, James, ed., trans.; Christensen, Katherine, ed., The Treatise on the Laws (Decretum DD. 1-20) with the Ordinary Gloss (Washington DC: Catholic U of America P, 1993).
- Friedberg, Emil, ed., Corpus Iuris Canonici Pars Prior Decretum Magistri Gratiani (Lipsia: Officina Bernhardi Tauchnitz, 1879).