Sirmondian constitutions

The Sirmondian Constitutions are a collection of sixteen Imperial Codes passed between AD 333 and 425, dealing with "bishops courts", or laws dealing with church matters.[1] They take their name from their first editor, Jacques Sirmond. Some of the laws appeared in abbreviated form in the Theodosian Code. The full collection survives only in a single early medieval manuscript now in Berlin, termed the Codex Lugdunensis.

The Constitution's authenticity is disputed. Some historians, such as Elisabeth Magnou-Nortier, think they are church forgeries; others, such as Olivier Huck, find them genuine.[2] Recent work has tended to suggest that they are essentially genuine but may have been edited, perhaps as part of preparations for the Second Council of Mâcon in 582.[3]

Editions

The standard edition is Theodosiani libri XVI cum Constitutionibus Sirmondianis et Leges Novellae ad Theodosianum pertinentes, edited by T. Mommsen and P. M. Meyer, in 2 volumes in Berlin in1905.

The English language version is The Theodosian Code and Novels and the Sirmondian Constitutions. A Translation with Commentary, Glossary, and Bibliography, translated and edited by C. Pharr and published in New York, in 1952.

References

Pharr, Clyde (1952) The Theosdian Code and Novels and the Sirmondian Constitutions Princeton University Press, Pharr
Huck, O. (January 2004). "Encore à propos des Sirmondiennes… : arguments présentés à l'appui de la thèse de l'authenticité, en réponse à une mise en cause récente". Antiquité Tardive (in German). 11: 181–196. doi:10.1484/J.AT.2.300257. ISSN 1250-7334.
Esders, Stefan; Reimitz, Helmut (2019). "After Gundovald, before Pseudo-Isidore: episcopal jurisdiction, clerical privilege and the uses of Roman law in the Frankish kingdoms". Early Medieval Europe. 27 (1): 85–111. doi:10.1111/emed.12315. ISSN 1468-0254.

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[1] Pharr, Clyde (1952) The Theosdian Code and Novels and the Sirmondian Constitutions Princeton University Press, Pharr

[2] Huck, O. (January 2004). "Encore à propos des Sirmondiennes… : arguments présentés à l'appui de la thèse de l'authenticité, en réponse à une mise en cause récente". Antiquité Tardive (in German). 11: 181–196. doi:10.1484/J.AT.2.300257. ISSN 1250-7334.

[3] Esders, Stefan; Reimitz, Helmut (2019). "After Gundovald, before Pseudo-Isidore: episcopal jurisdiction, clerical privilege and the uses of Roman law in the Frankish kingdoms". Early Medieval Europe. 27 (1): 85–111. doi:10.1111/emed.12315. ISSN 1468-0254.