After Gabriel Le Bras published in 1955 his famous Prolegomena of introduction to the then projected Histoire du Droit et des Institutions de l'Eglise in Occident, as the first mature fruit of that ambitious project, Jean Gaudemet published, in 1958, his prestigious volume L'Eglise dans l'empire romain, which became the obvious example of scientific height, which was to achieve this prestigious series of historical studies.
Under the direction of Prof. Gaudemet, this prestigious project has been gradually enlarging its volumes, still unfinished, when the first edition of the volume that made the series known has already been sold out. Hence the urgent need for this new edition, which maintains the faithful scientific personality of the previous work, presents clear samples of the mental youth of its author, always open to the work done by other researchers.
Almost one hundred pages, added to the previous text, are clear testimony of the amplitude with which the author echoes, in complementary notes, of the bibliography that, during the last thirty years, has been completing new aspects of the historical realities presented by Gaudemet , when this historical period did not interest historical research as vividly as it does today. Thus the universal reception given in his day, to this study, which has been the obligatory starting point, for those who have proposed to investigate any aspect of late antiquity, is now translated into the bibliographic series of the complementary notes of this volume which, at the same time it maintains its classic structure in its scientific field.
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Jean Gaudemet - L'Église Dans l'Empire Romain (1958)
After Gabriel Le Bras published in 1955 his famous Prolegomena of introduction to the then projected Histoire du Droit et des Institutions de l'Eglise in Occident, as the first mature fruit of that ambitious project, Jean Gaudemet published, in 1958, his prestigious volume L'Eglise dans l'empire romain, which became the obvious example of scientific height, which was to achieve this prestigious series of historical studies.
Under the direction of Prof. Gaudemet, this prestigious project has been gradually enlarging its volumes, still unfinished, when the first edition of the volume that made the series known has already been sold out. Hence the urgent need for this new edition, which maintains the faithful scientific personality of the previous work, presents clear samples of the mental youth of its author, always open to the work done by other researchers.
Almost one hundred pages, added to the previous text, are clear testimony of the amplitude with which the author echoes, in complementary notes, of the bibliography that, during the last thirty years, has been completing new aspects of the historical realities presented by Gaudemet , when this historical period did not interest historical research as vividly as it does today. Thus the universal reception given in his day, to this study, which has been the obligatory starting point, for those who have proposed to investigate any aspect of late antiquity, is now translated into the bibliographic series of the complementary notes of this volume which, at the same time it maintains its classic structure in its scientific field.
After Gabriel Le Bras published in 1955 his famous Prolegomena of introduction to the then projected Histoire du Droit et des Institutions de l'Eglise in Occident, as the first mature fruit of that ambitious project, Jean Gaudemet published, in 1958, his prestigious volume L'Eglise dans l'empire romain, which became the obvious example of scientific height, which was to achieve this prestigious series of historical studies.
Under the direction of Prof. Gaudemet, this prestigious project has been gradually enlarging its volumes, still unfinished, when the first edition of the volume that made the series known has already been sold out. Hence the urgent need for this new edition, which maintains the faithful scientific personality of the previous work, presents clear samples of the mental youth of its author, always open to the work done by other researchers.
Almost one hundred pages, added to the previous text, are clear testimony of the amplitude with which the author echoes, in complementary notes, of the bibliography that, during the last thirty years, has been completing new aspects of the historical realities presented by Gaudemet , when this historical period did not interest historical research as vividly as it does today. Thus the universal reception given in his day, to this study, which has been the obligatory starting point, for those who have proposed to investigate any aspect of late antiquity, is now translated into the bibliographic series of the complementary notes of this volume which, at the same time it maintains its classic structure in its scientific field.