Project Status: Ongoing

A collection of digitized canon law texts from the Carolingian period through the fourteenth century, most of which are available for download in .pdf format, and many of which are text-searchable.

The site provides links to digitized copies of the medieval corpus of canon law under the following headings: Carolingian canon law (the Dacheriana and Dionysio-Hadriana collections, and the Pseudo-Isidore); Ivo of Chartres; Decretum, Decretists (including Gratian’s Decretum; the summae of Stephen of Tournai, Rufinus, and others; and the Glossa Ordinaria); Early Decretals, Decretalists (including the Quinque Compilationes Antiquae; summae/ apparatus of Bernard of Pavia, Johannes Teutonicus, and others); Liber extra, Decretalists (including the Liber extra; summae of Innocent IV, Hostiensis, and others; and the Glossa Ordinaria of Bernard of Parma); and Registers (including the Regesta Pontificum Romanorum and other papal registers).

Resource details:

Resource Type: Downloadable data, E-book, Text: Medieval

License: Must provide credit, No Fee, Out of copyright

Modern Language: English

Medieval content details:

Dates: 770 - 1400

Subject: Carolingians, Church Fathers, Clergy, Confession, Penance, Law, Papacy, Religion - Institutional Church, Religious Law

Type/Genre of Medieval Primary Source Material: Compendia, Legislation, Textual Evidence

Geopolitical Region: Europe

Original Language: Latin

Medieval Creators: Magister Rolandus, Honorius III, Geoffrey of Trani, Hostiensis, Bernard of Compostella the Older, Johannes Teutonicus, Innocent IV, Stephen of Tournai, Rufinus, Paucapalea, Ivo of Chartres, Gratian, Bernard of Pavia