Abstract
Abstract Bracton contains more than 500 citations to cases on the plea rolls, the administrative records of the royal courts, and this chapter will demonstrate that the authors of Bracton thought of them as authoritative texts, similar to the authoritative texts of Roman and canon law they had learned from in the schools. The authors of Bracton use and treat citations to plea roll entries and citations to the authoritative texts of Roman law—Justinian’s Digest, Codex, and Institutes—in very similar ways. The authors of the treatise adopt similar citation methods for both, and speak about them in similar terms. The authors of Bracton applied to their case records the scholastic methods of harmonization and reconciliation that they had learned to apply to the authoritative texts of Roman and canon law.
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