This work, intended for all those interested in history, provides a comprehensive overview of Roman law in the Middle Ages. This volume is dedicated to the period of the glossators (circa 1050-1250). The topics of the individual chapters include: foundations and beginnings (Bologna and the early Middle Ages, rediscovery of the Digest, dominance of the Corpus iuris), education in Roman law, sources of the glossators, methods and literary forms, individual glossators and their works, Accursius and the Glossa ordinaria, works by unknown authors, as well as a concluding summary on the course and character of the work on the Corpus iuris and its significance for the development of European law.