Dorothea Valentinova
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Historical Studies, Department Member
- Roman History, Roman Law, Roman law, ancient legal history, ancient history, documentary papyri, Latin legal documents, Latin Literature, Translations from Latin, Crusades, and 29 moreLeges Barbarorum, Leges Regiae, Justinian I, Emperor, Graeco-Roman Egypt, Barbarians societies, Late Antiquity, Ethnogenesis, Funerary World, Goths, Vandals, Sueves, Alans, Barbarians and Romans in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages, Roman Crisis of the Third Century, Aurelius Augustinus, De civitate Dei, Lower Danube limes, Late Roman Empire, Early Roman Empire, Cicero, Paganism, Hypatia, Roman legal and administrative history, Early medieval Bulgaria, Barbaricum, Future Studies, Cultural History, Resistance (Social), Posthumanism, Transhumanism, Critical Posthumanism, History of Piracy, Cultural Heritage Management, Archaelogical Heritage Management, Human Rights and Corruption, and Crisis in Societyedit
Translation: Dorothea Valentinova, 2009
Превод: Доротея Валентинова, 2009
Превод: Доротея Валентинова, 2009
Translation from Latin, Vol. I, Dorothea Valentinova, 2005
Превод от латински, том I, Доротея Валентинова, 2005
Превод от латински, том I, Доротея Валентинова, 2005
Translation from Latin, Vol. II, Dorothea Valentinova, 2008, 2013
Превод от латински, том II, Доротея Валентинова, 2008, 2013
Превод от латински, том II, Доротея Валентинова, 2008, 2013
Translation: Dorothea Valentinova, 2006
Превод: Доротея Валентинова, 2006
Превод: Доротея Валентинова, 2006
Translation: Dorothea Valentinova, 2019
Преводач: Доротея Валентинова, 2019
Преводач: Доротея Валентинова, 2019
Liber Iudiciorum, the first Visigothic law code with territorial jurisdiction applied to the Visigoths and Hispano-Romans, replaced the Codex Euricianus and the Breviarium Alaricianum, both following the tradition of legal reception from... more
Liber Iudiciorum, the first Visigothic law code with territorial jurisdiction applied to the Visigoths and Hispano-Romans, replaced the Codex Euricianus and the Breviarium Alaricianum, both following the tradition of legal reception from the ius Romanum. The continuing influence of the Roman law on Liber Iudiciorum is particularly evident in the concepts of lex (law) and iustitia (justice), as well as in the legally and morally defined figure of the lawmaker, referred to as the artifex legum, the creator of art who imparts true wisdom and knowledge to the law and upholds truth and justice. Through translation, reading, and analysis of selected texts, this article tries, albeit in a modest format, to serve as an introduction to the thought-world of the authors of the Liber Iudiciorum and to their perceptions of law and justice, whose essence lies in the fundamental questions formulated at the very beginning of the code: “Quid est iustitia, lex et ius?” and “Quid sit, agit, erit lex, quare fit lex?”. Within its realm, the law itself represents the epitome of supreme virtues and moral principles.
Research Interests: Roman History, Roman Law, European Legal History, Legal Philosophy, Visigothic Spain, and 15 moreMedieval Spain, Barbarians Perception, Reception of Roman law, Barbarians, Barbarian societies, Medieval History of Spain, Visigoths, Visigodos, Derecho Romano, Leges Barbarorum, Barbarians and Romans in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages, Barbarians societies, Late Antiquity, Ethnogenesis, Funerary World, Goths, Vandals, Sueves, Alans, Romanitas, Romans and Barbarians, and Liber Iudiciorum
After 476, Flavius Gundobadus, King of the Burgundians (473–516), sought ways and means to consolidate and strengthen his power, including through legal regulation of the relations between the Burgundians themselves, on the one hand, and... more
After 476, Flavius Gundobadus, King of the Burgundians (473–516), sought ways and means to consolidate and strengthen his power, including through legal regulation of the relations between the Burgundians themselves, on the one hand, and between the Burgundians and the Gallo-Romans, on the other. Thus, Liber Constitutionum sive Lex Gundobada was issued, the main purpose of which is the legal regulation of the complex relations in the kingdom, through a codification of the preserved customary law – an embodiment of tribal traditions, practices, and customs, with reasonable use of Roman legal ideas, notions, and norms. The translation and analysis of selected provisions from Lex Gundobada in this paper show the extent to which the Burgundians perceived, received, adopted, and adapted some of the most valuable Roman legal and moral rules and principles, especially the Roman concepts of iustitia and corruptio, and how the rights of both the Burgundians and the Romans were regulated and ...
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The fate of the human societies in crisis and the lost civilizations is a "hostage" of a confrontation, which in the course of each individual, national and civilizational history inevitably becomes a sustainable symbolic antithesis:... more
The fate of the human societies in crisis and the lost civilizations is a "hostage" of a confrontation, which in the course of each individual, national and civilizational history inevitably becomes a sustainable symbolic antithesis: civitas humana adversus civitatem divinam, sacrum adversus profanum. The paper reconstructs fragments of both "realities" as described in texts of Cicero, Sallust, Augustine and Salvian.
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During the 5th century AD the presence of new powers in the territories of the Western Roman Empire, in the face of “Barbarian” Germanic foederati, put both the Germanic settlers and the indigenous Roman population into a new... more
During the 5th century AD the presence of new powers in the territories of the Western Roman Empire, in the face of “Barbarian” Germanic foederati, put both the Germanic settlers and the indigenous Roman population into a new socio-political, legal and institutional context. Perceiving themselves as true heirs of the Roman Empire, the Visigothic and Ostrogothic reges endeavoured to imitate the Roman rulers, and perhaps that partly motivated them to issue legal codes in the spirit of Roman traditions, preserving to some extent the Roman concepts of aequitas and iustitia.
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The devolution (considered as social degradation and regression), opposed to the social evolution, is a denial of justice and equality, accompanying the disintegration of personal and hence social value systems, which testifies to the... more
The devolution (considered as social degradation and regression), opposed to the social evolution, is a denial of justice and equality, accompanying the disintegration of personal and hence social value systems, which testifies to the disintegration of community self-consciousness, the replacement of the common good of the community (bonum commune communitatis) with private oligarchic interests, the obliteration or replacement of history, the obliteration or replacement of identities - national and personal. Historically, examples of such denials are armed conflict, racism, segregation, discrimination, corruption, ineffectively protected human rights, that should be fundamental, inalienable, universal and egalitarian. The article traces the leading vectors of these processes with a focus on the most severe global crises.
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“And in those days the Orthodox inhabitants of Alexandria were filled with zeal and they collected a large quantity of wood and burned the place of the heathen philosophers.”
John, Bishop of Nikiu, Chronicle
John, Bishop of Nikiu, Chronicle
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Breviary of Alaric (Breviarium Alaricianum, Lex Romana Visigothorum or Liber Aniani), collection of Roman law, compiled by order of Alaric II, King of the Visigoths, is extremely valuable source testifying to the reception and... more
Breviary of Alaric (Breviarium Alaricianum, Lex Romana Visigothorum or Liber Aniani), collection of Roman law, compiled by order of Alaric II, King of the Visigoths, is extremely valuable source testifying to the reception and preservation of the Roman law's traditions, regardless of the accelerated processes of its Barbarization in the West. In Lex Romana Visigothorum we find the well known Roman notions of law and justice, represented by the Roman concepts of iustitia and aequitas, and forbidding: “contra iustitiam iudicasse”.