HOME
Biography
- Tancred mentions him as Englishman and teacher.
- 1190-1215: Probably taught in Bologna.
- was he a Dominican?
- Probably teacher of Guilelmus Naso.
Activities as Canonist
- wrote the first comprehensive apparatus to the Compilatio Prima as fundament for the Glossa ordinaria as such and the Glossa ordinaria of the Decretals of Gregory IX.
- Apparatus ‘Ius naturale’ in Decretum
- Collectio Alani
- Glosses on the Compilatio Secunda (probably)
Introductory Secondary Literature
- See also: Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Medieval and Early Modern Jurists.
- LANDAU, Peter: Alanus Anglicus, in: Lexikon des Mittelalters, Vol.1, Artemis, München 1980, pp.267-268.
- SCHULTE, Johann Friedrich: Die Geschichte der Quellen und Literatur des canonischen Rechts. Von Gratian bis auf die Gegenwart, Vol. 1, Ferdinand Enke, Stuttgart 1875, pp.188-189.
- SCHULTE, Johann Friedrich: Die Compilationen Gilberts und Alanus, K.K. Hof und Staatsdruckerei, Wien 1870.
- STICKLKER, Alfons: Alanus Anglicus als Verteidiger des monarchischen Papsttums, Estratto da „Salesianum“, Anno XXI N.2-3 (1959), pp.346-406.