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The Codex Theodosianus ("Theodosian Code") is a compilation of the laws of the Roman Empire under the Christian emperors since 312. A commission was established by Emperor Theodosius II and his co-emperor Valentinian III on 26 March 429 [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and the compilation was published by a constitution of 15 February 438.
The Ecclesiastical Edicts of the Theodosian Code. Columbia University Press. Ehler, Sidney Zdeneck; Morrall, John B (1967). Church and State Through the Centuries: A Collection of Historic Documents with Commentaries. ISBN 978-0-8196-0189-6. Ferguson, Everett; McHugh, Michael P.; Norris, Frederick W. (1999). Encyclopedia of Early Christianity ...
The Sirmondian Constitutions are a collection of sixteen Imperial Codes passed between AD 333 and 425, dealing with "bishops courts", or laws dealing with church matters. [1] They take their name from their first editor, Jacques Sirmond. Some of the laws appeared in abbreviated form in the Theodosian Code.
By April, 1946, Mary was the assistant editor of the Theodosian Code translation project, [6] which was to be the first volume in a series translating the whole body of Roman law. [7] In addition to working on the Theodosian Code translation, Mary Brown Pharr published two articles of her own: "Crimes of Soldiers in the Theodosian Code," and ...
The Theodosian Law Code has long been one of the principal sources for the study of Late Antiquity. [222] It is an incomplete [223]: 106 [224] collection of laws dating from the reign of Constantine to the date of their promulgation as a collection in 438. Religious laws are in book 16. The code contains at least sixty-six laws targeted at ...
Iam writing because we have an emergency. Here are U.S. news headlines from a two-week period in the late summer of 2006: July 22: “CIA WORKER SAYS MESSAGE ON TORTURE GOT HER FIRED.” Christine Axsmith, a computer security expert working for the C.I.A., said she had been fired for posting a message on a blog site on a top-secret computer ...
Two more laws against paganism, which may be from this period, are preserved in the Justinian Code. [46] After the deposition of Avitus, who ruled as emperor of the West from 455 to 456, there seems to have been a conspiracy among the Roman nobles to place the pagan general Marcellinus on the throne to restore paganism; but it came to nothing. [15]
The mother of American journalist Austin Tice, who was taken captive during a reporting trip to Syria in August 2012, voiced hope that upheaval in Syria would lead to freedom for her son.. Debra ...