Where Gratian Slept: the Life and Death of the Father of Canon Law

• Autores: Anders Winroth
• Localización: Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte.: Kanonistische Abteilung, ISSN 0323-4142, Vol. 130, 2013, págs. 105-128
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • We know very little about the life of the famous canonist Gratian, the author of the Decretum, except that he appeared as a legal adviser in Venice in 1143 and that he compiled at least some version of the Decretum. Abbot Robert of Torigni claimed in c. 1180 that Gratian was bishop of Chiusi,but since no other source supports this claim, there has been no reason to take it seriously.

    This article shows that a previously misinterpreted necrology from Siena proves that a bishop called Gratian in fact served in Chiusi at the middle of the twelfth century and that it is likely that the canonist Gratian stopped teaching in Bologna to become bishop in Chiusi. Some other aspects of Gratian 's biography are also examined.