{{Short description|Interpreter of medieval Canon law}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Canon law}}
In the history of canon law, a '''decretist''' was a student and interpreter of the {{Lang|la|Decretum Gratiani}}. Like Gratian, the decretists sought to provide "a harmony of discordant canons" ({{Lang|la|concordia discordantium canonum}}), and they worked towards this through glosses ({{Lang|la|glossae}}) and summaries ({{Lang|la|summae}}) on Gratian.{{Sfn|Jones|2011|p=52}} They are contrasted with the decretalists, whose work primarily focused on papal decretals.
Early decretists of the Italian school include Paucapalea, a possible pupil of Gratian's; Rufinus, who wrote the {{Lang|la|Summa Decretorum}}; and Huguccio, who wrote the {{Lang|la|Summa Super Decreta}}, the most extensive decretist work.{{Sfn|Jones|2011|p=52}} There was also a French school of decretists starting with Stephen of Tournai.{{Sfn|Weigand|2008}}
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=== Sources === * {{Cite book |last=Jones |first=Rhidian |title=The Canon Law of the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of England: A Handbook |publisher=T&T Clark |year=2011 |edition=2 |pages=52 |chapter=Decretist |doi=10.5040/9780567669735|isbn=978-0-56766-973-5 }} * {{Cite book |last=Weigand |first=Rudolf |url= |title=The History of Medieval Canon Law in the Classical Period, 1140-1234: from Gratian to the decretals of Pope Gregory IX |date=2008 |publisher=Catholic University of America Press |isbn=978-0-8132-1491-7 |editor-last=Hartmann |editor-first=Wilfried |pages=174–210 |chapter=The Transmontane Decretists |doi=10.2307/j.ctt2853s5.10 |jstor=j.ctt2853s5.10 |editor-last2=Pennington |editor-first2=Kenneth}}
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