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264 SZ. A. SZUROMI Dictatus Papae - which is edited in critical form by the Monumenta Germaniae Historica - we can see,11 that each brief sentence is in very close literal connection with the canonical material on primacy of the contemporaneous commonly-used canon law collections (cf. Decretum Burchardi Wormatiensis [1004-1022]* 11 12). The source-critical analysis of every single article of the Dictatus Papae has just recently taken place.13 This research concluded to the astonishing realization that there is not any Gregorian principle which can be called a new right. The significant part of that can be attributed personally to St. Gregory the Great14 and to his letters.15 Among the sources are recognizable the canons of the Council of Chalcedon (451) and the Council of Carthage,16 patristic authors,17 18 and the influence of the Decretales Pseudo-lsidorianae.ls All of the successors of Gregory VII intended to retain this argumentation against the secular ruler concerning the position of the Roman Pontiff and of the Church, cardinalato ed episcopato (Atti della V Settimana Internazionale di Studi Medioevali, Mendola 26-31 agosto 1971; Miscellanea del Centro di Studi Medioevali VII), Milano 1974. 316-373. 11 CASPAR, E. (ed.), Registrum Gregorii VII (Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Epistolae), II. Berlin 1923. 55a. 12 Cf. MIGNE, J.P., Patrologiae cursus completus. Series Latina, CXL. coll. 550-618. 13 CUSHING, K.G., Papacy and law in the Gregorian Revolution. The Canonistic Work of Anselm of Lucca (Oxford Historical Monographs), Oxford 1998. SZUROMI, Sz.A., A püspökökre vonatkozó egyházfegyelmi szabályok az 'Anselmi Collectio Canonum '-ban (Bibliotheca Instituti Postgradualis luris Canonici Universitatis Catholicae de Petro Pázmány nominatae IV/1), Budapest 2000. Cf. SZUROMI, Sz.A., The Rules Concerning Bishops in an Early Gregorian Canonical Collection (Diuersorum patrum sententie siue Collectio in LXXIV titulos digesta, in Folia Theologica 16 (2005) 143-152. 14 About the conception of Pope Gregory the Great and his influence on the Gregorian Reform cf.. SZUROMI, Sz., Some Roman law questions in Book 3 c. 90 of Anselm's Collection, in Szuromi, Sz.A., Anselm of Lucca as a Canonist (Adnotationes in ius canonicum 34), Frankfurt am Main 2006. 101-106. 15 Dictatus Papae 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 15, 27 16 I.e. Dictatus Papae 5 = Cone. Chalc. (451) c. 30; Dictatus Papae 17 = Cone. Carth. (419) c. 24 17 Cf. Dictatus Papae 7 = S. Cyprianus, Ep. XXX; Dictatus Papae 26 = S. Ambrosius, De excessu fratris, I. n. 47. 18 FUHRMANN, H., Pseudoisidor in Rom vom Ende der Karolingerzeit bis zum Reformpapsttum, in Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung füt\ Rechtsgeschichte. Kanonistische Abteilung 78 (1967) 15-66.
