Accursius was an Italian jurist born around 1182 who died in 1263. He organized and compiled the scattered glosses of earlier legal scholars on Justinian's Corpus Juris Civilis into the Glossa Ordinaria, or Great Gloss, a work of nearly one hundred thousand individual glosses that became the starting point for every exegesis of Roman law after the mid thirteenth century, and was even given the force of law in some jurisdictions. Though not classically educated, contemporaries called him the Idol of the Jurisconsults, and his compilation remained foundational to legal study for centuries despite later humanist criticism.
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He is notable for his organization of the glosses, the medieval comments on Justinian's codification of Roman law, the Corpus Juris Civilis.
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Accursius (Italian: Accursio or Accorso di Bagnolo; c. 1182 - 1263) was an Italian jurist.
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The authority of the Gloss is probably due to Accursius' very exhaustive coverage of the civil law, in the course of which he not only pointed out its problems but unlike his predecessors also offered solutions for them.
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Wikidata Q339824, P569 date of birth claim (year)
P569 (date of birth): 1182
Wikidata Q339824, P570 date of death claim (year)
P570 (date of death): 1260
Wikidata Q339824, P19 place of birth claim
P19 (place of birth): Impruneta
Wikidata Q339824, P20 place of death claim
P20 (place of death): Bologna
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