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Summa on Marriage
| Edizione: | Brepols Publishers, 2005 | | Collana: | Mediaeval Sources in Translation |
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The birth and flowering of
canonical jurisprudence in the twelfth century is one of the most
striking and fruitful developments of the age, marking an important
turn in the history of the Church and in framing the essential
elements of the rule of law in political and social
life.
Raymond of Penyafort was an
important participant in these developments. Born near Barcelona in
1175, he became a teacher of canon law at Bologna, the greatest
centre of legal studies. He joined the newly founded Order of
Preachers (Dominicans), and championed multilingual education of
the friars for a more effective evangelization of Muslims and Jews.
He became Master General of the Order in 1238, and died in 1275. He
was canonized in 1601 and has been declared the patron saint of
canon lawyers.
Pope Gregory IX appointed Raymond
to produce a comprehensive compilation of papal legal decisions.
The result, the Decretals of Gregory IX (1234), would remain
normative in the Catholic Church until 1917. Raymond drew on it to
compose his Summa on Marriage, a summary of learned
reflection on the law of marriage, to aid his Dominican brothers in
hearing confessions, where numerous problems touching on marriage
would have been encountered. The definition of marriage and of its
ends, stages and impediments, arrangements and consequences are the
subject of the work. This translation of it offers students and
scholars alike a comprehensive presentation of the medieval
teaching on marriage - learned in content, practical in
orientation.
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