HOLLIS 'Gratian treatise on laws English' returns the Catholic University of America Press volume The Treatise on Laws (Decretum DD. 1-20), translated by Augustine Thompson and James Gordley with Katherine Christensen (Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Canon Law 2, 1993), and Gratian's Tractatus de penitentia: A New Latin Edition with English Translation, edited and translated by Atria A. Larson (same series 14, 2016). Those two portions, the opening distinctions and the penitential treatise, are all that is Englished; 'Gratian decretum English translation' returns no other candidate. The rest of the Decretum, the remaining distinctions and cases, has no published English translation, and the whole work is edited in Friedberg's Corpus iuris canonici, volume 1, which is on archive.org.
The Decretum is the founding text of the Western legal tradition: within a generation of 1140 it was the textbook of canon law and the model for every later collection. English readers have the theory of the opening distinctions and the penance treatise, but not the working body of the work, so the single most cited legal text of the Middle Ages cannot be read in the language in which it is taught.
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| archive.org · PDF scan · public domain (Friedberg, 1879; Graz reprint 1959) |
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| Two essays on the Decretum of Gratian | "Two essays on the Decretum of Gratian." Los Angeles : Zeitlin & Ver Brugge, 1971. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990038416260203941 |
| The Summa Parisiensis on the Decretum Gratiani | "The Summa Parisiensis on the Decretum Gratiani." Toronto, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1952. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990018396590203941 |
| The Summa parisiensis on the Decretum Gratiani | "The Summa parisiensis on the Decretum Gratiani." Toronto : The Pontifical institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1977. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990109354580203941 |
| The making of Gratian's Decretum | Winroth, Anders. "The making of Gratian's Decretum." Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990084979290203941 |
| Gratian and the schools of law, 1140-1234 | Kuttner, Stephan, 1907-1996. "Gratian and the schools of law, 1140-1234." London ; New York : Routledge, 2018. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99153736088703941 |