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Period: 235 to 533
Post-classical Roman Law
It lasted from the 3rd until the 6th century - from the death of Alexander Severus Roman Emperor in 235 AD (after Christ) until the legal compilation ordered by Justinian in 533 AD. -
238
Diocletan
From 238 until 305
Roman Emperor who eliminated the general crisis in the Empire on economical, political, social fields. He stabilized the empire and appointed co-emperors to lead the country: Maximian and Augustus, this regulation led to the creation of the tetrarchy. -
Period: 238 to 305
Diocletan
Roman Emperor who eliminated the general crisis in the Empire on economical, political, social fields. He stabilized the empire and appointed co-emperors to lead the country: Maximian and Augustus, this regulation led to the creation of the tetrarchy. -
475
Code of Euric
-Germanic Law
-Gothic custom altered by Romanic law.
-Code has not been preserved in its entirety. -
476
Collapse of the Western Roman Empire
The fall of the Empire has always been viewed as the end of the ancient world and the onset/start of the Middle Ages. -
506
Breviary of Alaric II
-Also called Lex Romana Visigothorum.
-Roman Law.
-Contains imperial constitutions and the interpretation of classic jurists. -
527
Justinianic Roman Law
Justinian has an outstanding importance regarding the Roman Law and the Roman empire as well. He reigned as emperor of the Byzantine Empire during this period and he was the last one who tried to recover the old Roman empire.
He tried to achieve his goal in three different ways
1. Territorial unification
2. Religious peace
3. Restored old Roman Law -
Period: 529 to 534
Codex
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533
Institutions
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533
Digesta
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534
Novellae
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575
Codex Revisus
-Review of the Code of Euric.
-Germanic Law. -
Period: 600 to 1100
An age without jurists
-Dissapearance of the jurists.
-Law is not an autonomous science.
-The Western Roman Empire.
-The Eastern Roman Empire.
-The Emperor´s lost dream.
-"Per pugnam sine justitia" -
654
Liber Iodiciorum
-Roman Law.
-No distinction between Visigoths and Romans, applied for both groups. -
Period: 1000 to 1100
Reinassance
In this period of time new urban markets appeared, among other things. -
1050
Birth of Irnerius
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1054
Split between the Eastern and Weastern Church.
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1075
Dictatus Papae
Pope Gregory VII promulgated the Dictatus Papae, that transformed the canonical life.
He thought a reform was necessary -
Period: 1084 to 1088
First Law lectures at Bologna
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1088
University of Bologna was founded
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1124
Investiture Conflict
There were disagreements between The Pope and The Emperor, concercing the bishops appointing. -
1125
Death of Irnerius