In this first volume of the new History of Medieval Canon Law series, Lotte Kéry presents a bibliographical survey of the chronological and systematic canonical collections in the Latin West from the beginnings of Christianity to Gratian's Decretum (ca. a.d. 1140). Divided into three large chronological periods-Early Medieval, Carolingian, and Gregorian Reform-the book includes a catalogue of early medieval canonistic manuscripts and valuable information about them. For each collection, Kéry has described its type and contents, the time and place of compilation, and when possible, its author. In addition, full bibliographies have been provided for each collection.

Lotte Kéry is an historian at the Leopold-Wenger-Institut in Munich.

"This book will be an essential reference tool for scholars in this area of study."--American Reference Books Annual

ANNOUNCING A NEW SERIES

History of Medieval Canon Law
Wilfried Hartmann and Kenneth Pennington, Editors

This new series brings together a group of distinguished scholars to present a unified history of medieval canon law from the earliest time to 1500. During the last century, legal historians discovered that medieval canon law influenced almost all parts of medieval and early modern life and thought. It attracted some of the best minds of the period, thereby creating a jurisprudence of great sophistication. By combining the history of canon law with the history of the law's influence and impact on the Church, the authors have produced a groundbreaking work of scholarship that will interest a wide audience and, at the same time, be a valuable tool of reference. "This is the first volume to appear in the long-awaited History of Medieval Canon Law, edited by Wilfried Hartmann and Kenneth Pennington. It is a piece of meticulous research, which bodes very well indeed for the ten volumes still to come. . . . It will be of use to scholars of the medieval period in general, identifying major collections of canonical material intended for ecclesiastical use; but it will also serve as a guide to the authors of the subsequent studies in the series, enabling them to 'dispense with similar lists' in their own works. . . . Its value to the medieval historian is all the greater because of the vast secondary material provided for individual collections or canonists. . . . This is an impressive bibliographical tool, whose usefulness will extend far beyond the purpose for whic