Folia Theologica et Canonica 2. 24/16 (2013)
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278 RECENSIONS the way of investigation, estimation, penalizing, healing and prevent of them. In the same time, the Author gives a clear picture about the peculiarities of the well-developed penal law system of the Church and by this he is able to objectively clarify many critics and misunderstandings which arise in the contemporary secularized society. It is the best credible way to prove the strong and unquestionable will of the Church to revel, to judge radically and to prevent the so called most grave delicts. Szabolcs Anzelm Szuromi, O.Praem. Szuromi, Sz. A., The Testimony of Medieval Canonical Collections - Texts, Manuscripts, Institutions - (Bibliotheca Instituti Postgradualis Iuris Canonici Universitatis Catholicae de Petro Pázmány nominatae III/18), Szent István Társulat, Budapest 2014, pp. 224 “If we like to understand the discipline of the Church, we must dedicate our attention to the ecclesiastical doctrine, explained by patristic authors or laid down by papal letters. However, this analysis is important not only to form a clear picture for us about the canonical sources of the Middle Ages, but also to recognize the most important - constant - principles behind our current canon law system. It is the primary aim of this present volume, which intends to give more details on the characteristic of ‘sacred law’, describing canonical texts, canon law manuscripts, and ecclesiastical institutions.” This quotation is the essence of that Preface which can be read at the beginning of Szabolcs Anzelm Szuromi’s new English volume on the description of the medieval canonical texts, manuscripts and institutions (6-7). Prof. Szuromi is the President of the Catholic University of Budapest and the Canon Law Institute “ad instar facul- tatis” at the same university. His fundamental medieval canon law source, institute and science history researches are really remarkable, but at the same time he is very active teacher of several Hungarian, European and American universities from 2000; moreover, since 2013 he is the leader of the Canon Law History Research Center of Budapest. This particular volume is a systematic summary of the author’s researches which were done between 2011 and 2013. Prof. Szuromi has already summarized his profound new scientific results in three English volumes (i.e. Anselm of Lucca as a Canonist — A textual-critical overview on the ‘Collectio Cano- num Anseimi Lucensis’ [Adnotationes in lus Canonicum], Frankfurt am Main 2006; Medieval Canon Law - Sources and Theory - [Bibliotheca Instituti Postgradualis Iuris Canonici Universitatis Catholicae de Petro Pázmány nominatae III/12], Budapest 2009; From a reading book to a structuralized canonical collection - The Textual Development of the Ivonian Work - [Aus Recht und Religion 14], Berlin 2010) and in his new book he uses the same precise
