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The __Hibernensis__ is the longest and most comprehensive canon-law text to have circulated in Carolingian Europe. Compiled in Ireland in the late seventh or early eighth century, it exerted a strong and long-lasting influence on the development of European canon law. The present edition offers―for the first time―a complete text of the __Hibernensis__ combining the two main branches of its manuscript transmission. This is accompanied by an English translation and a commentary that is both historical and philological. The __Hibernensid__ is an invaluable source for those interested in church history, the history of canon law, social-economic history, as well as intellectual history, and the history of the book. Widely recognized as the single most important source for the history of the church in early medieval Ireland, the __Hibernensis__ is also our best index for knowing what books were available in Ireland at the time of its compilation: it consists of excerpted material from the Bible, Church Fathers and doctors, hagiography, church histories, chronicles, wisdom texts, and insular normative material unattested elsewhere. This in addition to the staple sources of canonical colle

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Author

Flechner, Roy (Editor)

Publisher

The Catholic University of America Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813231938

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Religion, History, Law