The Canonical Resources of Atto of Vercelli (926–960)
Recent research on the Collectio Isidori Mercatoris, better known to historians as the False Decretals compiled by Pseudo-Isidore, has refuted the prevalent view that the Pseudo-Isidorian compilation became widely diffused in Italy only when the Lotharingian churchmen in Pope Leo IX's (1049–54)...
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| Language: | English |
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1970
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Traditio
Year: 1970, Volume: 26, Pages: 335-350 |
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| Summary: | Recent research on the Collectio Isidori Mercatoris, better known to historians as the False Decretals compiled by Pseudo-Isidore, has refuted the prevalent view that the Pseudo-Isidorian compilation became widely diffused in Italy only when the Lotharingian churchmen in Pope Leo IX's (1049–54) entourage brought it to Rome and made it known as their favorite collection. Although Schafer Williams' Codices Pseudo-Isidoriani appeared too late for me to use in the preparation of this paper, his articles make it evident that the initial error rests with Hinschius' incomplete and incorrectly dated list of manuscripts. Horst Fuhrmann, moreover, has shown that, with the possible exception of the first six decades of the tenth century, at least since Hadrian II (867–72), popes made continuous albeit sparing use of the forgeries, and it was only with Urban II (1088–99) that they began to rely on them extensively. His conclusion that the principal channel of diffusion for the False Decretals was not the papacy but the systematic collections which incorporated the forgeries, suggests that further research is needed on the influence of canonical collections in the pre-Gregorian period. |
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| ISSN: | 2166-5508 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0362152900005067 |