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Title

Law in the crisis of empire, 379-455 AD : the Theodosian dynasty and its quaestors with a palingenesia of laws of the dynasty / Tony Honoré.

Author

Honoré, Tony, 1921-2019

Publication

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.

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Description

xii, 320 p. ; 24 cm. +

Summary

This is a study of the laws of the late Roman Empire (379-455 AD). The book attempts to compile a list assigning each law to the likely quaestor who drafted it and explores why the eastern Theodosian Code came too late to save the West.

Uniform Title

University press scholarship online.

Subject

• Codex Theodosianus
• Roman law
• Theodosius I, Emperor of Rome, 347-395

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-314) and index.

System Details (note)

• System requirements for accompanying computer disk: MS Word for Windows 6.0.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain
• committed to retain

Contents

1. Law in the Age of Crisis Eastern Laws and Quaestors -- 2. Theodosius I: the First Decade (379-388) -- 3. Theodosius I: Flavianus and the Later Years (388-395) -- 4. Arcadius (394-408) and Eutropius Quaestor (396-9) -- 5. Theodosius II: Towards the Code (408-437) -- 6. Understanding the Theodosian Code -- 7. Theodosius II: Beyond the Code (438-450) Western Laws and Quaestors -- 8. Valentinian II and Maximus (383-392) -- 9. A View from Rome: Law in the Historia Augusta -- 10. Honorius: the Milan Period (395-402) -- 11. Honorius: the Ravenna Period (402-423) -- 12. Valentinian III and Galla Placidia (425-437) -- 13. Valentinian III: the Later Years (438-455) -- Tables: Table 1. List of Imperial Quaestors of the Theodosian Age Table -- 2. List of Legal Texts cited with references to Palingenesia.

ISBN

0198260784 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^^97047471^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library