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RANGE OF INTERESTS: ANALYSIS BY SUBJECT
the scale of the which only the
Pans publishers were not at any special
'. in this field. There was no Faculty ofCivil Law in Paris University.
though the nmtnu. of the Paiiement brought to the capital as residents or
a large number of lawyers, and leading booksellers plied their trade
within die premises of the Pariement itself- It was in the south of France that
the liailiir of Roman Law was strongest, and where it continued to shape
the laws actually in farce. And as an academe subject k was particularly
cultivated at die University of Toulouse. One of die 'finds' made by
fmUoleBwas tbcLedmn safer I. tibnm /JHaMmmv of Pierre de Belleperche or
De Bella Pertica (d. 1308), a former chancellor of France, who had taught at
Toulouse and at Orleans PA 1514. 3). In odier cases privileges might be
orks which had indeed been printed before but might well be
to get in France, or appear in improved editions. Thus a volume of
t M am tdectt by Baitholomeus Socinus ( 1436-1507) and other legal
appeared widi a privilege (PA 1513, i). The rate at which privileges
were given far Roman Law studies seems to have increased slightly towards
the end of die period (e-g. PA 1520, 4: PA 1522, i; CP 1525, i: PA 152*:-.
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Law, or the law of die Church, was studied as generally at this
; Civil Law. The two indeed interacted at so many points with each
and with die current law of die land, that mam ambitious lawyers
their business to obtain a degree in both, and a licentiate, or still better
a doctorate, mhmtp*jnu was a qualification much respected. Here die Paris
book-trade was on its own ground, for die Faculty of Canon Law in Paris
University was an important centre ofstudies in die subject. The fundamental
i required by students were, as in die case of die drpmsjmris aztfc, already
in print. At most, Guillaume Eustace used his personal privilege of 1 508 from
the king far editions, prepared by Claudius de Niceyo. of three volumes of die
Ctrpmsjmris coma pabhshed in 1509 and 1510 (CH 1508, 2) 3. 5 and 7).
Standard works long since in print, like diose of Durandus. might be given a
if newiy edited by a competent French lawyer (e.g. PA 1513, 4).
Problems raked by die relations between die royal power and die papacy,
especialh the Concordat of 1516. and die elections to benefices in die French
i the other hand burning topical issues. Texts of die Pragmatic
and of die Concordat, officially approved, received privileges and
were sometimes accompanied by commentaries or by
relevant treatises
revived from the past (e^. PA 1508, i; CH 1518, 2: CH 1519, 2 (i). Works
BBC umve of Petros de Btaxio on die conduct of elections (PA 1511, 3) or die
Tnctstm* irmfriilif ofJean de Serve (PA 1514, 4) would be received by die
general public of the day as of immediate interest.
a privilege if they were being printed far die first time
royal approval, or after a revision. An edition
with a commentary and indices drawn up by a lawyer with specialist
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