The Theodosian Code and Novels, and the Sirmondian Constitutions
The Theodosian Code and Novels, and the Sirmondian Constitutions

Author: Clyde Pharr

Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 674

ISBN-13: 1584771461

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Pharr, Clyde. The Theodosian Code and Novels and the Sirmondian Constitutions: A Translation with Commentary, Glossary, and Bibliography. [Princeton]: Princeton University Press, 1952. xxvi, 643 pp. Reprinted 2001 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 2001023441. ISBN 1-58477-146-1. Hardcover. * Definitive scholarly English translation of the Theodosian Code, which was the Code of laws that regulated Roman life at its apex before the era of Justinian. The structure and scope of this text illustrate the complexity of the legal system of this fascinating era and the ultimate fall of the Roman empire. Marital law, adultery and inheritance; libel; the military; pardons; government administration; tax and tax appeals; fiscal law, debtors, and petitions; notification of suit; the secret service; land matters; gladiators, conscripted labor and compulsory public service, slavery and manumission, including the restriction of Jews against ownership of Christian slaves; the relationship of church and state and much more are covered. With thorough introduction, commentary, glossary, bibliography. Well-indexed.

Law in the Crisis of Empire, 379-455 AD
Law in the Crisis of Empire, 379-455 AD

Author: Tony Honoré

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780198260783

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This new book by an eminent legal scholar and author can be described in a number of ways: a work of reference; an essay in the study of style; a contribution to the prosopography of the late Roman quaestorship; and a reflection on the fall of the western (and on the survival of the eastern) Roman empire. Using an innovative method of analysis--already successfully employed in his acclaimed Emperors and Lawyers (OUP 1994)--the author examines the laws of a crucial phase of the later Roman empire (379-455 AD), a period during which the west collapsed while the east persisted. He allots the laws to their likely drafters and shows why the eastern Theodosian Code (429-438 AD), intended to restore the legal and administrative unity of the Roman empire, came too late to save the west. The book includes a Palingenesia--as stored on an accompanying floppy disk--allowing scholars to read the primary texts chronologically and judge the soundness of the arguments advanced.

The Codex of Justinian
The Codex of Justinian

Author: Bruce W. Frier

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 3364

ISBN-13: 0521196825

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The first reliable annotated English translation, with original texts, of one of the central sources of the Western legal tradition.

The Cambridge Companion to Roman Law
The Cambridge Companion to Roman Law

Author: David Johnston

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-02-23

Total Pages: 555

ISBN-13: 0521895642

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This book reflects the wide range of current scholarship on Roman law, covering private, criminal and public law.

A Short History of Roman Law
A Short History of Roman Law

Author: Olga Tellegen-Couperus

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-11

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 1134908016

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Roman law is one of the key legal systems from which modern European law is derived. In this book Dr Tellegen-Couperus discusses the way in which Roman jurists created and developed law, and the way in which Roman law has come down to us.

Threshold of Fire
Threshold of Fire

Author: Hella S. Haasse

Publisher: Chicago Review Press

Published: 2005-08-01

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1613734565

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In this vivid, dynamic novel, Hella Haasse has once more brought the past to life. This time she has chosen to illuminate a crucial, yet relatively obscure period of history: it is 414 A.D. and the once-powerful Roman Empire is in its death throes—split between East and West, menaced by barbarian hordes almost literally at its gates. The Emperor Honorius, an incompetent weakling, cowers in the marsh-bound city of Ravenna, where he has moved the government; he rarely "makes entry" into Rome. This is the brilliant canvas against which the characters in this drama interact. There is the Prefect Hadrian, a powerful official and fanatical Christian convert; there is Marcus Anicius, the pagan aristocrat who is clinging to a dying past, and there is the Jew Eliezar be Elijah, hemmed in by his own traditions and burdened by his dark vision of the future. There is the intrigue and uncertainty of life at Honorius's court, and there are the streets and tenements of Rome, pulsating with life and with corruption.