Journal Communes, Signed (1 results)

Reprint. Condition: Gut. pp. 1-16 From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - With author's dedication to W. Haase. - Author's name underlined on cover, otherwise a very good and clean copy. - From the text: The Italian communes of the twelfth century are well known as pioneers of democratic self-government. One of these communes, the city of Bologna, is also known as the seat of the first university founded in the early twelfth century on the study of a great law book, the Corpus Juris Civilis. This collection of laws and legal opinions was compiled at the order of the late Roman emperor Justinian in the sixth century at Constantinople, the then remaining capital of the all-Mediterranean Roman Empire, (today better known as the Turkish city of Istanbul). Oddly, while the democratic experience of the Italian communes faded into authoritarian and, in part, foreign governments on the Italian peninsula, the Corpus Juris Civilis, spread by Bologna students and by the students of other schools patterned after Bologna, became the law of most of the European continent. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.