From post-classical law until Irnerius (Assigment 3)

  • 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

    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

    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

  • 533

    Institutions

  • 533

    Digesta

  • 534

    Novellae

  • 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

    Birth of Irnerius
  • 1054

    Split between the Eastern and Weastern Church.

    Split between the Eastern and Weastern Church.
  • 1075

    Dictatus Papae

    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

  • 1088

    University of Bologna was founded

    University of Bologna was founded
  • 1124

    Investiture Conflict

    Investiture Conflict
    There were disagreements between The Pope and The Emperor, concercing the bishops appointing.
  • 1125

    Death of Irnerius