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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Honoré, Tony, 1921-2019.

Contributor:

Ellis D. Williams, College 1865, Endowment Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Roman law.

Codex Theodosianus.

Theodosius I, Emperor of Rome, 347-395.

Theodosius.

Physical Description:

xii, 320 pages : 24 cm. + 2 computer disks (3 1/2 in.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1998.

System Details:

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

Summary:

This new book by an eminent legal scholar and author can be described in a number of ways: a work of reference; an essay in the study of style; a contribution to the prosopography of the late Roman quaestorship; and a reflection on the fall of the western (and on the survival of the eastern) Roman empire. Using an innovative method of analysis--already successfully employed in his acclaimed Emperors and Lawyers (OUP 1994)--the author examines the laws of a crucial phase of the later Roman empire (379-455 AD), a period during which the west collapsed while the east persisted. He allots the laws to their likely drafters and shows why the eastern Theodosian Code (429-438 AD), intended to restore the legal and administrative unity of the Roman empire, came too late to save the west. The book includes a Palingenesia--as stored on an accompanying floppy disk--allowing scholars to read the primary texts chronologically and judge the soundness of the arguments advanced.

Notes:

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

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Ellis D. Williams, College 1865, Endowment Fund.

ISBN:

0198260784

OCLC:

38067604