Irnerius (Catholic Encyclopedia article)
Michael Ott · 1913
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Bologna jurist Irnerius, also called Garnerius, born about 1050 and dead about 1130, founded the School of Glossators and revived the study of Roman law. Barely past twenty he already taught grammar and rhetoric at Bologna, and at Countess Matilda of Tuscany's urging he turned to jurisprudence with Justinian's code as his guide. Law study had been much neglected in the empire, so he leaned heavily on private reading, with a likely spell at a Rome law school.
After a short spell teaching law in Rome he returned to Bologna. There he founded his new law school in 1084. Glossing became the method of a generation. Glossing means line-by-line comment on legal texts. Only in recent decades, the entry notes, has his influence drawn the attention it deserves. Readers meet the teacher who turned old codes into a living medieval science.
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| CREATOR | Michael Ott |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1913 |
| COLLECTION | REFERENCE |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 3 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | New Advent — Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) |