Law in the Crisis of Empire, 379-455 AD: The Theodosian Dynasty and Its Quaestors with a Palingenesia of Laws of the DynastyClarendon Press, 1998 - 320 pages 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. |
Contents
Law in the Age of Crisis | 1 |
EASTERN LAWS AND QUAESTORS | 31 |
The First Decade 379388 | 33 |
Flavianus and the Later Years 388395 | 58 |
Arcadius 394408 and Eutropius Quaestor | 77 |
Towards the Code 408437 | 97 |
Understanding the Theodosian Code | 123 |
Beyond the Code 438450 | 154 |
Law in the Historia Augusta | 190 |
The Milan Period 395402 | 212 |
The Ravenna Period 402423 | 228 |
Valentinian III and Galla Placidia 425437 | 248 |
The Later Years 438455 | 258 |
List of Imperial Quaestors of the Theodosian Age | 275 |
List of Legal Texts Cited with References to Palingenesia | 278 |
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Common terms and phrases
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References to this book
Hispania in Late Antiquity: Current Perspectives Kimberly Diane Bowes,Michael Kulikowski No preview available - 2005 |
Hispania in Late Antiquity: Current Perspectives Kimberly Diane Bowes,Michael Kulikowski No preview available - 2005 |