The scanty documentation of the Synod of Elvira was first assembled by Ferdinand de Mendoza, De confirmando Concilio IIIiberitano ad Clementem VIII, 1593. The canons are available online in English and in Latin (with dictionary lookup links) Notes References Bibliography Giovanni Domenico Mansi, Sacrorum Conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio (Florence and Venice, 1758–98) vol.II.ii.1-406; reprint (Paris) 1906 Reprints the account of Ferdinand de Mendoza, pp. 57–397. Jean Hardouin, Conciliorum collectio regia maxima i. pp. 247–258. Karl Josef von Hefele, Conciliengeschichte I, pp. 148–192 (2nd ed. 1873) (English translation, i. pp. 131 sqq.) Alfred W. Dale, The Synod of Elvira and Christian Life in the Fourth Century (London, 1882) Edgar Hennecke, in Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge (3rd ed), sv. "Elvira", especially bibliography. Samuel Laeuchli, Power and Sexuality: The Emergence of Canon Law at the Synod of Elvira (Philadelphia: Temple University Press) 1972. Power dynamics, sexual controls and the emergence of a clerical elite. Conrad Rudolph, "Communal Identity and the Earliest Christian Legislation on Art: Canon 36 of the Synod of Elvira," Perspectives for an Architecture of Solitude, ed. Terryl Kinder (2004) 1-7 Philip Schaff History of the Christian Church, vol. II "Ante-Nicene Christianity AD 100–325" Section 55. "The Councils of Elvira, Arles, and Ancyra." José F. Ubina. Le concile d'Elvire et l'esprit du paganisme // Dialogues d'histoire ancienne. V. 19. No. 19-1, 1993 pp. 309–318. Available online External links CUA.EDU: Council of Elvira: text of 81 canons in English The 81 Canons in Latin (with dictionary lookup links) at www.earlychurchtexts.com. Catholic Encyclopedia: Council of Elvira 300s in the Roman Empire 4th century in Hispania 4th-century church councils Clerical celibacy Aniconism Censorship in Christianity History of Granada 305 306 Spain in the Roman era Diocletianic Persecution