Positive reconstruction · reader-scoped, not an inferred-absence lacuna
This reconstruction covers the readable fraction of Thomas Aquinas's formation -- attested reading and writing only, not the whole of a life.
Thomas Aquinas and Decretum Gratiani
Thomas Aquinas's attested relationship to Decretum Gratiani.
Thomas Aquinas is attested as having read this work by Gratian.
Evidence ledger
- Citation-derived from Aquinas's own ingested Latin text (pattern=aquinas-citation-23627-961-1019): canon-law citation 'ut habetur XX, quaest. ii, can. Puella' - the Decretum's causa/quaestio/canon form; Innocent IV also named in the vicinity; direct