ST. RAYMOND OF PENNAFORT: A CRITICAL EDITION AND ENGLISH TRANSLATION

San Ramón de Penyafort by Fernando Valls Taberner has appeared in many editions and been translated into several different languages. The first Spanish edition 1 dates back to 1936, which is a significant date since it marked the beginning of the Spanish Civil War and, as a result, the actual distribution of the book was delayed by three years. This edition contained a preface by Valls Taberner, eighteen chapters and a bibliography that was divided into a list of general references followed by further reading for each chapter, as well as ten illustrations. In 1953, a second edition was published as the second part of the first volume of a collection of selected works by Fernando Valls Taberner 2, which later appeared in a new fourvolume edition 3. The third edition, which was essentially a reissue of the original 1936 edition, was published in 1979 with the addition of a prologue by Martín de Riquer 4 and a biographical note on Valls Taberner. In 1986, Manuel J. Peláez and José Calvo González published their well-known collection of Valls Taberner?s legal writings alongside his studies in legal science, the history of canon law and political thought 5. This collection reproduced the 1936 edition and included a new section of notes, amendments and additional information (?Notas, enmiendas y adiciones?).

INTRODUCTION TO THE ENGLISH EDITION
Preliminary Note to the 1953 Spanish Edition by J. E. Martínez Ferrando
Prologue to the 1979 Spanish Edition by M. de Riquer
Prologue to the 1986 Spanish Edition by M. J. Peláez and J. Calvo González
Prologue to the 1996 Catalan Edition by J. M. Font Rius
Introduction to the 1996 Catalan Edition by Llorenç Galmés
Appendix to the 1996 Catalan Edition by A. Collel: St. Raymond of Pennafort, Patron
Saint of the City of Barcelona
Appendix to the 1996 Catalan Edition by J. M. Mas Solench: ?St. Raymond of
Pennafort, Patron Saint of the College of Lawyers of Barcelona?
Prologue to the 1998 Spanish Edition by E. Gay Montalvo
Prologue to the 2000 Italian Edition by G. Biffi: ?The City of Bologna in the Spiritual
and Cultural Education of St. Raymond of Pennafort?
Introduction to the 2000 Italian Edition by B. Ferme
Preface by Fernando Valls Taberner
I. St. Raymond?s Education, University Career And Religious Vocation
II. The Writer of Treatises on Canon and Moral Law
III. The Legation of the Cardinal of Sabina in Spain
IV. St. Raymond, Grand Penitentiary
V. The Compilation of the Decretals
VI. In Search of Rest
VII. Master General of the Dominican Order
VIII. St. Raymond?s Composition of the Constitutions of the Order of Preachers
IX. Return to the Homeland
X. Intervention in Important Ecclesiastical Matters of the Province of Tarragona
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XI. St. Raymond and the Commencement of the Inquisition
XII. The Missionary Thinking of St. Raymond
XIII. The Christian-Rabbinical Disputations of the Thirteenth Century
XIV. St. Raymond of Pennafort and King James I, the Conqueror
XV. St. Raymond and the Catalan Society of his Time
XVI. The Miracles of St. Raymond
XVII. The Death and Glorification of St. Raymond
XVIII. The Value and Doctrinal Significance of St. Raymond of Pennafort?s
Ideology
Essays on St. Raymond of Pennafort by Fernando Valls Taberner
I. St. Raymond, Compiler of the Decretals
II. St. Raymond of Pennafort?s Thinking on Morals, Public and International
Law and his Political Accomplishments
III. The Question of the Legitimacy of War According to St. Raymond of
Pennafort
Bibliography
A Selection of Works Consulted by Fernando Valls Taberner
Other Relevant Literature