IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 712: The Roman Legal Heritage between Continuity and Reformation, I: Texts and Tradition
Tuesday 7 July 2015, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Projet Volterra, University College London |
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Organiser: | R. W. Benet Salway, Department of History, University College London |
Moderator/Chair: | R. W. Benet Salway, Department of History, University College London |
Paper 712-a | Medieval Rulers and the Lex Romana around 900 (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Law, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Paper 712-b | The Selection and Transmission of Roman Law in the Collectio Britannica (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Law, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Paper 712-c | Justinian's Digest and Its Text before the School of Bologna (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Law, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Abstract | This session discusses the theme of the Roman legal heritage on the cusp of the explosion of interest in and use of Roman law and the Justinianic codification, which led in due course to the establishment of a pre-eminent law school at Bologna and the canonization of the Vulgate text in the 12th century. How and why this happened when and where it did, and what was the nature of the existing legal and intellectual world out of which this could occur are key questions of medieval scholarship. The papers of this session focus specifically the manuscript tradition of the Theodosian and Justinianic collections and their derivatives. |