From 529 to 534 AD the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I codified and consolidated Roman law up till that time, so that what remained was one-twentieth of the mass of legal texts from before. As one authorized historian wrote, “Justinian consciously …
From 529 to 534 AD the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I codified and consolidated Roman law up till that time, so that what remained was one-twentieth of the mass of legal texts from before. As one authorized historian wrote, “Justinian consciously …