Hugolinusglossen im accursischen Apparat zum Digestum vetus
In research on the history of Roman law in the Middle Ages, the desideratum is the history of the text of the glosses written in the 13th century by Accursius on the Corpus Iuris Civilis – the work that determined the reception of Roman law in Europe. What were the sources used by Accursius? What use did he make of them? What did he add to the work of his predecessors? This book aims to answer these questions. It aims to revise Savigny's preliminary judgment on the quality of Accursius's work, to reduce what Astuti still called the "pressochè completa ignoranza" of Accursius's way of working – as far as this is possible in a work which, assuming that the forest cannot be fathomed except by looking at individual trees, is limited to the history of the text of individual passages.