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32) But he also did not hesitate to note that whereas Justinian had pared down the civil law to manageable compass, "there are now so many glosses, summas, writings, lectures, treatises, and libels that it seems impossible, let alone for both laws but just for the reading of the civil laws or of the decretals, that a man's life would be enough.
Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) wrote two large Summas, the Summa Theologica (Sum of Theology) and the Summa Contra Gentiles (Summa against non-Catholics).
 
 
 
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