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O „prawniczych” znaczeniach terminu culpa w Kodeksie Teodozjusza

Vox Patrum, 2014
The Latin term culpa on the legal ground is usually associated with res­ponsibility for torts. Many of the contemporary works link this legal construc­tion with Roman law, which till now is praised for its concision and clarity.
Maciej Jońca
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Codification of late Roman inheritance law: fideicommissa and the Theodosian Code [PDF]

Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis / Revue d'Histoire du Droit / The Legal History Review, 2008
AbstractIt has long been known that most of the private law content of the Theodosian Code has not been preserved independently of the Lex Romana Visigothorum. Certain constitutions, not contained in the LRV but dating to the period covered by the CT, have survived in the Code of Justinian.
Tate, Joshua C.
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Paul Krüger, Theodor Mommsen, and the Theodosian Code [PDF]

Roman Legal Tradition, 2021
The present article contains a full transcription plus an English translation of Mommsen's and Krüger's correspondence regarding the Theodosian Code edition, as far as it is extant.
Peter Riedlberger, Isabel Niemöller
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Laying Down the Law: A Study of the Theodosian Code. [PDF]

, 2004
At the outset of Laying Down the Law, John Matthews states that his book will attempt to provide â an understanding of the nature of the [Theodosian] Code and how it was producedâ , and that it will be â about the Code itself and not about the Roman Empire portrayed in its pagesâ (vii).
Humphries, Mark, Matthews, J. F.
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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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‘Because their patron never dies’: ecclesiastical freedmen, socio‐religious interaction, and group formation under the aegis of ‘church property’ in the early medieval west (sixth to eleventh centuries)

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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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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Droit et gouvernement de l’Empire (284-410 apr. J.-C.)

Pallas, 2023
The legal experience of Late Antiquity is marked by the centrality of the emperor in establishing norms through imperial constitutions. The transmission of these constitutions through the Theodosian Code encouraged a bias that focused attention on ...
Hélène Ménard
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