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Rufinus of Assisi, c.?-1192.

Medieval Bologna canonist.

Rufinus was a highly influential teacher of (ecclesiastical) canon law at Bologna, and a canon of the city's cathedral.  Rufinus became bishop of Assisi and later archbishop of Sorrento. Rufinus's Summa of Gratian's Decretum, was was much admired and influential.

Usually known simply as "Rufinus", he is sometimes called "Rufinus Assisias" ("of Assisi") to distinguish him from another contemporary (but minor) canonist known as Rufinus da Bologna (but that appellation itself confuses with the 3rd C. St. Rufinus of Assisi, the first bishop of Assisi!)  (He also must not be confused with Rufinus of Aquiliea, a 4th C. Latin translator of the Greek Christian fathers)

 

  

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Major Works of Rufinus

  • Summa Decretorum, c.1159 [1902 Singer ed., bk, av, pdf]
 
 
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