Research Catalog

Title

Papal letters in the Early Middle Ages / Detlev Jasper and Horst Fuhrmann.

Author

Jasper, Detlev

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2001.

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Additional Authors

Fuhrmann, Horst

Description

xiii, 225 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

The present volume of the history of medieval canon law contains two essays on late antique and early medieval papal letters: Detlev Jasper describes the history of the transmission and spread of papal decretals from the beginning of the fourth century to the end of the ninth century in the Latin West; Horst Fuhrmann tells the story of the Pseudo-Isidorian forgeries, a collection of conciliar decrees and papal letters that were arranged chronologically. The most influential and important texts in this collection were forged papal decretals that were attributed to popes who reigned during the first four centuries of the Christian era.

Series Statement

History of medieval canon law

Uniform Title

History of medieval canon law

Subject

• To 1500
• Letters, Papal > History > To 1500
• Canon law > Sources

Genre/Form

• History
• Sources

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-210) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / Wilfried Hartmann and Kenneth Pennington -- The Beginning of the Decretal Tradition: Papal Letters from the Origin of the Genre through the Pontificate of Stephen V / Detlev Jasper -- Prefatory Remarks. pt. I. Papal Letters and Decretals Written from the Beginning through the Pontificate of Gregory the Great (to 604). I. Transmission and Reception of Decretals and Letters from Siricius (384-399) through Sixtus III (432-440). II. The Letters and Decretals of Pope Leo (440-461). III. From Simplicius to Gregory I (468-604): Transmission and Reception. IV. Collections of Papal Letters. pt. II. Papal Letters of the Merovingian and Carolingian Periods. I. Papal Letters of the Seventh Century. II. The Papal Letters in the Correspondence of Boniface. III. Papal Letters from the Mid-Eighth to the Mid-Ninth Century. IV. The Letters of Pope Leo IV (847-855). V. The Letters of Pope Nicholas I (858-867). VI. The Letters of Hadrian II (867-872), John VIII (872-882), and Stephen V (885-891). VII. Conclusion -- The Pseudo-Isidorian Forgeries / Horst Fuhrmann. I. The Extent of the Forgeries. II. The Purpose of the Forgeries. III. The Individual Forgeries. IV. The Origin of the Forgery and Its Immediate Influence.

ISBN

0813209196 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^00059035^

OCLC

• 44634328
• SCSB-9984223

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library