Jacobus de Boragine

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Decretals gloss by the Four Doctors of Bologna.

Jacobus de Boragine was one of the Glossators, and Four Doctors of Bologna. [1] [2] Jacobus was born in the early 12th century and was an Italian lawyer, one of four students of Irnerius called the Quattuor Doctores, although Savigny disputes the general tradition of his inclusion in this list. [3] The other doctors were Bulgarus, Martinus and Hugo. The legal philosophy of Bulgarus adhered closely to the letter of the law while their fellow, Martinus, took a more natural law and Equity approach. His time at Bologna was therefore one of the formative times in legal theory.

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Students of the German nation at Bologna university.

He was an author of many parts of the Gloss of the Corpus juris civilis .

He died in 1178. [5]

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References

  1. Hunt Janin, The University in Medieval Life, 1179-1499 (McFarland, 2008) page 67.
  2. Johannes Fried, The Middle Ages (Harvard University Press, 2015) page 214.
  3. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Bulgarus"  . Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 786.
  4. Chisholm 1911, p. 787.
  5. Witolda Wołodkiewicza, Prawo rzymskie. Słownik encyklopedyczny. (Warszawa: Wiedza Powszechna, 1986) p. 163.