Folia Theologica et Canonica 3. 25/17 (2014)
RECENSIONS
RECENSIONS 253 rence on Medieval Legal History 2006], Copenhagen 2007. 51-72). Prof. Szu- romi has already summarized his former profound scientific results in four English volumes (i.e. Anselm of Lucca as a Canonist - A textual-critical overview on the ‘Collectio Canonum 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; The Testimony of Medieval Canonical Collections - Texts, Manuscripts, Institutions - [Bibliotheca Instituti Postgradualis Iuris Canonici Universitatis Catholicae de Petro Pázmány nominatae III/18], Budapest 2014) and in his new book - which is the second in the series of Aus Religion und Recht by Frank & Timme Editing House - he uses the same precise textual-critical, codicological, paleographical and comparative analyzing technic which he has successfully done in his previous publications. Prof. Szuromi’s work is distributed into eight chapters which analyzing in detailed form the most important canonical collections from the Apostolic Canons up to the canonical work of Ivo of Chartres (pp. 15-106). As introduction of this observation the author gives a precise summary on that new methodological approach and its results, which has transformed the recent research regarding the compositions of canonical works, in particular to discover the primary goal of a concrete collection or auxiliary literature. Here we can read the most significant authors’ names and their fundamental work (pp. 9-12). There is a revised description - using the most recent new results - of the famous Collectio Dionysion-Hadriana and its text (pp. 25-34); the notes on the Pseudo- Isidorian Collection is also considerable, because Prof. Szuromi makes an extensive and well balanced comparison between the earlier scientific results and Karl-Georg Schon’s new concept, using also the basic ideas of Wilfried Hartmann and Gerhard Schmitz (pp. 35-44). It is continued by a unique analysis of another key collection of the Western canon law history, namely the Decretum Burchardi Wormatiensis (45-58). This chapter intends to deliberate every new theory and concept concerning this elementary collection, using that textual critical and comparative work which has been done by Pof. Szuromi during the last three years. We can read about the Gregorian Reform in two chapters. The first is dedicated to the structure and contents of the 74-Title Digest with particular attention to the recent questions of its origin and location of the primary textual form (i.e. the research of Linda Fowler-Magerl and Christof Rolker), making a note based on Prof. Szuromi’s 2013 and 2014 researches in Paris (Bibliothèque Nationale, lat. 13658) [59-68], The second speaks about the “best Gregorian canon law collection” (i.e. Alphons M. Stickler), the Collectio canonum Anseimi Lucensis, systematically presenting its different original sources (patristic, papal, conciliar, Roman law), the textual development of dif-
