Canon law history

thumb|Didache manuscript The Didache (; ), also known as '''''The Lord's Teaching Through the Twelve Apostles to the Nations''''' (), is a brief anonymous early Christian treatise (ancient church order) written in Koine Greek, dated by modern scholars to the first or (less commonly) second century AD.

list of publications prohibited by the Catholic Church from 1559 to 14 June 1966

forged Roman imperial decree by which the emperor Constantine supposedly donated Rome and surrounding territory to the Pope

text concerning statements of powers arrogated to the pope

The scholars of the 11th- and 12th-century legal schools in Italy, France and Germany are identified as glossators in a specific sense. They studied Roman law based on the Digesta, the Codex of Justinian, the Authenticum (an abridged Latin translation of selected constitutions of Justinian, promulgated in Greek after the enactment of the Codex and therefore called Novellae), and his law manual, the Institutiones Iustiniani, compiled together in the Corpus Iuris Civilis. (This title is itself only a sixteenth-century printers' invention.) Their work transformed the inherited ancient texts into

An exequatur (Latin, literally "let it execute") is a legal document issued by a sovereign authority that permits the exercise or enforcement of a right within the jurisdiction of the authority.

(1542–1908) institution of the Roman Curia

thumb|Start of a capitulary of Charlemagne in the 9th-century manuscript Beinecke 413 A capitulary (medieval Latin ) was a series of legislative or administrative acts emanating from the Frankish court of the Merovingian and Carolingian dynasties, especially that of Charlemagne, the first emperor of the Romans in the west since the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the late 5th century. They were so called because they were formally divided into sections called (plural of , a diminutive of meaning "head(ing)": chapters).

legal concept

4th-century Syrian Ancient church order

Medieval canon law text

political and secular governmental activity of the popes of the Roman Catholic Church

legal principle expressed in Latin

16th-century calendar of saint days of the Catholic Church

papal bull concerning Catholic canon law

Term employed by medieval canonists

A Legist, from the Latin lex 'law', is any expert or student of law.

collection of imperial and papal letters of the 3rd and 4th century

church law promulgated by a synod or ecumenical council or by an individual bishop

Pre-Vatican II version of the General Roman Calendar

Jurisdictionalism is a political maneuver intended to extend the state's jurisdiction and control over the life and organization of the Church, namely the parallel legal structure consisting of ecclesiastical rights and privileges. Specifically, it can be defined as a current of thought and a political attitude aiming to affirm the authority of the laical jurisdiction over the ecclesiastical one. Fundamental tools of jurisdictionalism (also called regalism) were the placet and the exequatur, by which the State allowed or denied the publishing and implementation of orders from the Pope or other