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Francis GERMOVNIK, Indices ad Corpus iuris canonici, editio altera a Michaele THERIAULT recognita, Ottavae, Facultas iuris canonici, Universitas Sancti Pauli, 2000, viii, 497 p. -- ISBN 0-919261-46-9 -- 98 $C (Canada); 75 US$ (United States); 90 US$ (Other countries).
Francis Germovnik and Michel Theriault have produced a book that ought to become an indispensable companion for any serious student of the Corpus iuris canonici. The Indices Corporis iuris canonici is a most valuable research tool, divided into logical and useful components. The main body of the work consists of two "analytical-alphabetical indices" of the Decretum Gratiani and the Decretales. To show how these indices work one might take a given concept -- say, sepultura -- and trace its development through the layers of medieval canon law. When we turn to the entry on sepultura in the Index analytico-alphabeticus ad Decretum Gratiani, we discover, among other things, that Gratian's work teaches that individual parishes ought to have cemeteries; that the land where a cemetery is located ought not to be sold; that children are...