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The Code of Justinian (Latin: Codex Justinianus, Justinianeus [2] or Justiniani) is one part of the Corpus Juris Civilis, the codification of Roman law ordered early in the 6th century AD by Justinian I, who was Eastern Roman emperor in Constantinople. Two other units, the Digest and the Institutes, were created during his reign.
Justinian I depicted on a mosaic in the church of San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy. Justinian acceded to the imperial throne in Constantinople in 527. [4] Six months after his accession, in order to reduce the great number of imperial constitutions and thus also the number of court proceedings, Justinian arranged for the creation of a new collection of imperial constitutions (Codex Iustinianus). [4]
The most frequently used modern version of Justinian's Institutes is that of Krüger, [14] which is in volume one of the Krüger, Mommsen, Kroll and Schoell stereotype edition. [15] There are several translations of Justinian's Institutes into English, the better of the older ones being those of J.B. Moyle and Thomas Collett Sandars. [16]
Hence, in 534 Justinian issued the Constitutio cordi nobis, [4] creating a second edition of the Code (Codex repetitae praelectionis). This edition integrated his new legislation into the imperial enactments in the first edition and superseded it. Justinian continued to legislate after he created the second edition of the Code.
The Bibliotheca Palatina ("Palatinate library") of Heidelberg was the most important library of the German Renaissance, numbering approximately 5,000 printed books and 3,524 manuscripts. The Bibliotheca was a prominent prize captured during the Thirty Years' War , taken as booty by Maximilian of Bavaria , and given to the Pope in a symbolic and ...
The Scholae Palatinae (lit. ' Palatine Schools '; Greek: Σχολαί, romanized: Scholai) were an elite military imperial guard unit, usually ascribed to the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great as a replacement for the equites singulares Augusti, the cavalry arm of the Praetorian Guard.
The code finally came into effect on 21 March 1804. [19] The process developed mainly out of the various customs, [clarification needed] but was inspired by Justinian's sixth-century codification of Roman law, the Corpus Juris Civilis and, within that, Justinian's Code (Codex). The Napoleonic Code, however, differed from Justinian's in ...
Irnerius elucidates the Justinian Code by Luigi Serra Irnerius ( c. 1050 – after 1125), sometimes referred to as lucerna juris [ 1 ] ("lantern of the law"), was an Italian jurist , and founder of the School of Glossators and thus of the tradition of medieval Roman Law .