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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.
The Sirmondian Constitutions may also represent a small-scale collection of imperial laws. However, Theodosius desired to create a more comprehensive code that would provide greater insight into law during the later empire (321–429). Peter Stein states, "Theodosius was perturbed at the low state of legal skill in his empire of the East."
He married classicist Mary Brown in 1945. Brown was an assistant professor of Latin at Converse College, S.C. [11] She became a noted classical scholar, and assistant editor of the Theodosian Code project. In 1950, Clyde and Mary left Vanderbilt for the University of Texas at Austin where he was a visiting professor from 1950-1953, Research ...
The Theodosian Code of 438 preserves two laws condemning the "Tascodrogitae". [10] The first was issued by the Emperors Gratian, Valentinian II and Theodosius I on 20 June 383 at Constantinople. It forbids the Tascodrugites from assembling, but clarifies that they "shall by no means be evicted from their own habitations". [1]
On December 1945, at the age of 35, Brown married her advisor, Clyde Pharr, and became his research assistant. [5] 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]
Gamaliel VI (c. 370–425) was the last nasi of the ancient Sanhedrin.. Gamaliel came into office around the year 400. On October 20, 415, an edict issued by the Emperors Honorius and Theodosius II stripped Gamaliel of his rank of honorary prefect. [1]
A fragment of the Theodosian Code copied in the 7th century is also part of the undertext of Vat. Lat. 5766. [2] The existence of the palimpsest was discovered by Angelo Mai in 1821. Today only 33 fragments, representing 28 leaves, survive from the original manuscript, which had at least 228 leaves. [ 3 ]
The Codex Theodosianus (Eng. Theodosian Code) was a compilation of the laws of the Roman Empire under the Christian emperors since 312. A commission was established by Theodosius II and his co-emperor Valentinian III on 26 March 429 [9] [10] and the compilation was published by a constitution of 15 February 438. It went into force in the ...