This contribution offers an overview of the origin, development and persistence of Roman law from... more This contribution offers an overview of the origin, development and persistence of Roman law from its origins in the 8th century BC to the 19th century AD. Roman law and its sources, above all the Justinianic Codification – the so called Corpus Iuris Civilis – have left an indelible imprint on the development of law in Europe and laid the foundation of many European legal systems. The role of Roman law within the legal science in the Middle Ages and the modern period will therefore also be treated here. Moreover, this article will discuss the fundamental relationship between Roman and Canon law and the reception of Roman law in many countries in Europe.
Despite the numerous studies on "infamia" in Roman law, there is still a significant ga... more Despite the numerous studies on "infamia" in Roman law, there is still a significant gap for the period from Constantine to Justinian. One of the reasons is doubtless furnished by the difficulties of the rhetorical and prolix style typical of late antique imperial constitutions, often indeed condemned as using imprecise legal terminology. The present study offers a lexicon of "infamia" as it emerges from the constitutions enacted in the fourth-sixth centuries A.D. It is conceived as a preliminary and necessary step towards more substantial research on this subject.
Dieser Beitrag bietet einen Uberblick uber den Ursprung, die Entwicklung und den Fortbestand des ... more Dieser Beitrag bietet einen Uberblick uber den Ursprung, die Entwicklung und den Fortbestand des romischen Rechts von seinen Anfangen im 8. Jahrhundert v. Chr. bis ins 19. Jahrhundert. Das romische Recht und seine Quellen, vor allem die justinianische Kodifikation – das sogenannte Corpus Iuris Civilis –, haben die Rechtsentwicklung in Europa entscheidend gepragt und bildeten die Grundlage fur viele europaische Rechtsordnungen. Untersucht wird daher auch die Rolle des romischen Rechts in der mittelalterlichen und neuzeitlichen Rechtswissenschaft. Zudem stellt dieser Beitrag die wechselseitige Beziehung des romischen mit dem kanonischen Recht und die Rezeption in vielen Landern Europas vor.
Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte: Romanistische Abteilung, 2021
The Papyrology Rooms of the Sackler Library, Oxford, preserve the correspondence of the two famou... more The Papyrology Rooms of the Sackler Library, Oxford, preserve the correspondence of the two famous papyrologists, B.P. Grenfell and A.S. Hunt, conducted with numerous scholars from Britain and continental Europe. The main subject of this correspondence is the editing of the texts found in the Oxyrhynchus papyri. On some of the most important legal papyri, namely P.Oxy. 1814, 2089 and especially 2103 (the ‘Oxyrhynchus Gaius’), Hunt sought out the collaboration of Roman law scholars such as F. de Zulueta, W.W. Buckland and E. Levy, who all participated to a varying degree in the editorial process of these legal documents. These letters, some of them hitherto unknown, are here published for the first time. They reveal the extent of the collaboration especially between Hunt and de Zulueta, the Regius Professor of Civil Law in Oxford. In addition to this correspondence, another letter on the same theme was discovered in the University Library of Aberdeen, where de Zulueta’s personal libr...
This contribution offers an overview of the origin, development and persistence of Roman law from... more This contribution offers an overview of the origin, development and persistence of Roman law from its origins in the 8th century BC to the 19th century AD. Roman law and its sources, above all the Justinianic Codification – the so called Corpus Iuris Civilis – have left an indelible imprint on the development of law in Europe and laid the foundation of many European legal systems. The role of Roman law within the legal science in the Middle Ages and the modern period will therefore also be treated here. Moreover, this article will discuss the fundamental relationship between Roman and Canon law and the reception of Roman law in many countries in Europe.
Despite the numerous studies on "infamia" in Roman law, there is still a significant ga... more Despite the numerous studies on "infamia" in Roman law, there is still a significant gap for the period from Constantine to Justinian. One of the reasons is doubtless furnished by the difficulties of the rhetorical and prolix style typical of late antique imperial constitutions, often indeed condemned as using imprecise legal terminology. The present study offers a lexicon of "infamia" as it emerges from the constitutions enacted in the fourth-sixth centuries A.D. It is conceived as a preliminary and necessary step towards more substantial research on this subject.
Dieser Beitrag bietet einen Uberblick uber den Ursprung, die Entwicklung und den Fortbestand des ... more Dieser Beitrag bietet einen Uberblick uber den Ursprung, die Entwicklung und den Fortbestand des romischen Rechts von seinen Anfangen im 8. Jahrhundert v. Chr. bis ins 19. Jahrhundert. Das romische Recht und seine Quellen, vor allem die justinianische Kodifikation – das sogenannte Corpus Iuris Civilis –, haben die Rechtsentwicklung in Europa entscheidend gepragt und bildeten die Grundlage fur viele europaische Rechtsordnungen. Untersucht wird daher auch die Rolle des romischen Rechts in der mittelalterlichen und neuzeitlichen Rechtswissenschaft. Zudem stellt dieser Beitrag die wechselseitige Beziehung des romischen mit dem kanonischen Recht und die Rezeption in vielen Landern Europas vor.
Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte: Romanistische Abteilung, 2021
The Papyrology Rooms of the Sackler Library, Oxford, preserve the correspondence of the two famou... more The Papyrology Rooms of the Sackler Library, Oxford, preserve the correspondence of the two famous papyrologists, B.P. Grenfell and A.S. Hunt, conducted with numerous scholars from Britain and continental Europe. The main subject of this correspondence is the editing of the texts found in the Oxyrhynchus papyri. On some of the most important legal papyri, namely P.Oxy. 1814, 2089 and especially 2103 (the ‘Oxyrhynchus Gaius’), Hunt sought out the collaboration of Roman law scholars such as F. de Zulueta, W.W. Buckland and E. Levy, who all participated to a varying degree in the editorial process of these legal documents. These letters, some of them hitherto unknown, are here published for the first time. They reveal the extent of the collaboration especially between Hunt and de Zulueta, the Regius Professor of Civil Law in Oxford. In addition to this correspondence, another letter on the same theme was discovered in the University Library of Aberdeen, where de Zulueta’s personal libr...
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