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Lecteurs anciens du Code Théodosien : l’interprétation wisigothique
Clio@Themis, 2023 Several types of texts in the Late Antique West share an intertextual relationship with the Theodosian Code, giving rise to a “second degree” legal literature.
Federico Battaglia
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قوانين الطلاق في عهد الإمبراطور ثيودوسيوس الثاني (408 – 450م) [PDF]
Buḥūṯ, 2023 شهدت الدراسات البيزنطية طفرة ملحوظة من البحث والدراسة خلال القرن الماضي، فقد صب الباحثون فيما مضي جل اهتمامهم علي الموضوعات السياسية والحربية والعسكرية، تلك الموضوعات التي غطتها بشكل كبير المصادر المعاصرة لتلك الأحداث وتوفرت عنها المعلومات بشكل مستفيض ...
سهر سمير فريد عواد +3 more
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Pallas, 2023 At the same time as a historiographical assessment, we will take the point on the inscriptions and the texts at our disposal to understand the evolutions of the “imperial post” between 284 and 410 AD.
Sylvie Crogiez-Pétrequin
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Missing Queens: Gender, Dynasty and Power in Vandal Africa
Gender &History, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 3-21, March 2022., 2022 Abstract This paper reconsiders a curious aspect of the Vandal kingdom of North Africa (439–533 ce): the total absence of women called Vandals in extant sources. It argues that these missing Vandal women are the women of the Hasding royal dynasty. The non‐application of the ethnic terminology to the consorts, sisters and daughters of kings and princes ...
Robin Whelan
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La «calda» estate africana del 413 e la risposta normativa ravennate
Rivista di Diritto Romano, 2023 - The frequency and intensity of the number of constitutions promulgated by Honorius varied considerably during the twenty-eight years of his reign. The aim of this contribution is to analyse the leges promulgated in the year 413, with particular regard ...
Lorenzo Lanti
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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 29, Issue 4, Page 555-585, November 2021., 2021 In the early medieval west, patronate, as adapted from Roman law, was a fundamental category in determining the legal status of freedmen. In many cases it entailed a basic set of obligations. In an increasing number of situations, however, the patron became an ecclesiastical institution, since slaves and freed persons were often given to churches and ...
Stefan Esders
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The admission of former slaves into churches and monasteries: reaching behind the sources
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 29, Issue 4, Page 586-611, November 2021., 2021 Religious institutions in early medieval Europe were both recipients of former slaves and instigators of manumissions. By drawing on recent work concerning the admission of former slaves into churches and monasteries, the present paper identifies dominant strands in the historiography from Marc Bloch to the present, which are then re‐evaluated in light
Roy Flechner, Janel Fontaine
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De Excidio Patriae: civic discourse in Gildas’ Britain
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 29, Issue 2, Page 137-160, May 2021., 2021 This article explores the use of civic discourse in Gildas’ De Excidio Britonum. It argues that such language and imagery functioned within a larger dialectical argument that exhorted readers to choose virtue over vice. Gildas assigned the Britons collective moral agency by styling them citizens (cives) of a shared homeland (patria) defined by cities ...
Robert Flierman, Megan Welton
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Rome and the Barbarians : the privilege of law
Clio@Themis, 2022 The inheritance of Roman law is complex. On the same background created by Rome, specific legal forms grew up which resulted of the process of acculturation.
Soazick Kerneis
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Pope Leo of Bourges, clerical immunity and the early medieval secular
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 86-108, February 2021., 2021 This article investigates the early medieval secular through the lens of clerical immunity – that is, the legal exemption of clerics from courts labelled as secular. It focusses on a short text, eventually attributed to Pope Leo, which was written in fifth‐century Gaul to define this immunity.
Charles West
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