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A collection of imperial enactments called the Codex Gregorianus had been written in c. 291–4 [1] and the Codex Hermogenianus, a limited collection of rescripts from c. 295, [1] was published. The Sirmondian Constitutions may also represent a small-scale collection of imperial laws. However, Theodosius desired to create a more comprehensive ...
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 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]
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 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 ...
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 ...
His manuscript was palimpsested at Bobbio Abbey in the 8th century, when a theological work by John Cassian was written over the legal text. 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.
The Theodosian Code and the colonate in the Roman empire are particularly subjects of research. His Food for Rome: the Legal Structure of the Transportation and Processing of Supplies for the Imperial Distributions in Rome and Constantinople (1991) developed from the thesis for his doctoral degree at Amsterdam, completed in 1984. [ 7 ]