Law, legislative authority, and theories of government, 1150–1300

Abstract

In the middle of the twelfth century, Gratian completed his Concordia discordantium canonum – a 'Concord of Discordant Canons', later called simply the Decretum – and, unlike most earlier compilers of canonical collections, he began with a series of texts and comments on the various sources and types of law. Gratian did more than gather texts together; he unified and explained them, and in some cases he rejected the authority of some as being out-of-date or superfluous. The Decretum was the first collection of the high Middle Ages in which the compiler commented on the texts he brought together. It was an important step in medieval jurisprudence.

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