Gratian (Decretist)

Type Figure Region Italy Time c. 1090–1159 Also known as Author of the Decretum Gratiani

Founder of medieval canon law scholarship, active in Bologna around the mid-12th century; his Decretum (c.…

Timeline

c. 1110–1130Bologna · Emilia-RomagnaGratian taught in Bologna, possibly a monk of the Camaldolese order, studying church legal texts deeply in the local legal environment and gathering material and methods for his Decretum.
c. 1130–1140Bologna · Emilia-RomagnaHe completed the Concordia discordantium canonum, commonly called the Decretum Gratiani, systematically organizing and reconciling thousands of canon law rules from the early Church Fathers onward, using dialectic to resolve conflicting provisions. It quickly became the standard textbook of canon law and remained the authoritative text of Catholic canon law until the 1917 Code of Canon Law.

Gratian (jurist) — Wikipedia (2024) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratian_(jurist)
The History of Canon Law in the Classical Period, 1140–1234 — Wilfried Hartmann; Kenneth Pennington (eds.) (2008)