Johannes de Deo (died 1267)
Johannes de Deo[1] (c. 1190 – 15 March 1267) was a Portuguese priest, judge and scholar of canon law who taught for over twenty years at the University of Bologna. He was a prolific writer.
Life
Johannes was called
In 1241, Johannes acquired a
Works
Johannes wrote numerous works in Latin on canon law:[6]
- Casus decretalium cum canonibus concordantesor Concordatis[2] (before 1238), mentioned in the Liber iudicum[5]
- Breviarium decretorum or Decretum abbreviatum (before 1238), mentioned in the Liber iudicum,[5] little more than a table of contents for the Decretum[2]
- Distinctiones super toto iure canonico (before 1238), mentioned in the Liber iudicum[5]
- Arbor versificata (before 1238), mentioned in the Liber iudicum,[5] a collection of mnemonic doggerel verse for the aid of his students, popular and widely copied[6]
- Chronica a tempore beati Petri hucusque qualiter subcreverit ecclesia inter Turbines et Procellas[2] (before 1238), mentioned in the Liber iudicum[5]
- Liber iudicum (1236[4] or 1246[2]), a treatise on judicial process divided into four books on judges, plaintiffs, defendants and advocates[2]
- Epistulae canonicae de decimis (30 May 1240)[5]
- Apparatus [super toto corpore][2] decretorum (before 1241)[5]
- Notabilia cum summis super titulis decretalium[4][5] [et decretorum][2] (September 1241), dedicated to Cardinal Gil Torres[5]
- Casus legum canonizatarum quae inter canones continentur et unde babeant ortum in libris legalitbus[2] (1 September 1242)[5]
- Summa super quatuor causis decretorum (1243),[4] a continuation of the Summa of Huguccio[5] which contains a list of his earlier works[2]
- Liber dispensationum (28 August 1243), dedicated to the Franciscan orders, contains a list of his earlier works and was submitted to Innocent IV for corrections[5]
- Liber pastoralis (August 1244), dedicated to Cardinal Guglielmo Fieschi[5]
- Principium decretalium (after 1245),[4] an important source for the history of the Quinque compilationes antiquae[5]
- Liber poenitentiarius (or poenitentialis
- Liber quaestionum (6 September 1248), dedicated to Cardinal Ottaviano Ubaldino[5]
- Cavillationes[2] or Liber cavillationum[4] (2 September 1246), contains a dedication to Guglielmo Fieschi added after 1248[5] and a list of thirteen of his earlier works[2]
- Concordantiae decretorum cum titulis decretalium (after 1248)[4]
- Liber opinionum (1251),[4] submitted to Innocent IV for corrections in October 1251[5]
- De abusibus contra canones (n.d.),[4] an appendix to the Liber poenitentiarius[5]
- Catalogus haereticorum[2]
- Commentum super novellis decretalium[2]
- De electione[5]
- Flos decretorum[2]
- Lecturae super decretalibus,[2] readings of the Decretals[3]
- Liber primarius de varii juris pontifici materiis[2]
- Liber distinctionum[2]
- Quaestiones de processu canonico[3]
- Summa de sponsalibus[2]
- Summa moralis[2]
- Summula super decimis ecclesiasticis, a letter to the Dominican order requesting preaching on the duty to tithe with a prologue addressed to Alexander IV and the College of Cardinals[5]
- Tabula decreti[2]
- Tabula decretorum[2]
In addition, some
Johannes argued that the
Few of Johannes' works have been printed. An exception is Principium decretalium, which has been edited by Hermann Kantorowicz.[4]
References
- ^ His name translates at "John of God". His given name may be spelled Iohannes or Joannes. Other Latin surnames besides de Deo include Bononiensis, Ictus and Yspanus. In other languages his name is translated João de Deus (Portuguese), Juan de Dios (Spanish), Giovanni di Dio (Italian) and Jean de Dieu (French). See Iohannes de Deo, in Rolf Schönberger (ed.), Alcuin: Infothek der Scholastik (Universität Regensburg, 2022).
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Patrick Colquhoun, A Summary of the Roman Civil Law (William Benning and Co., 1849), 175–176.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Christie's, Live Auction 6704, The Count Oswald Seilern Collection, Lot 7, Johannes de Deo (c.1190–1267), Liber poenitentiarius de cautela simplicium sacerdotum in seven books, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum (2003).
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Miguel Carlos Vivancos Gómez, "Juan de Dios Hispano", Diccionario biográfico español (Real Academia de la Historia, 2018).
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z A. Domingues de Sousa Costa, "Joannes de Deo", New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2nd ed. (Gale, 2002), 7:882–883.
- ^ a b c d Sam Worby, Law and Kinship in Thirteenth-Century England (The Boydell Press, 2010), 34–36.
- ^ a b Osvaldo Cavallar and Julius Kirshner, Jurists and Jurisprudence in Medieval Italy: Texts and Contexts (University of Toronto Press, 2020), 191 n42.
- ^ a b Rob Meens, Penance in Medieval Europe, 600–1200 (Cambridge University Press, 2014), p. 212.
- ^ Sohail H. Hashmi and James Turner Johnson, "Introduction", in Sohail H. Hashmi (ed.), Just Wars, Holy Wars, and Jihads: Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Encounters and Exchanges (Oxford University Press, 2012), 7.