Law, Society, and
Authority in Late Antiquity
by Ralph W. Mathisen
(Editor)
The sixteen papers in
this volume investigate the links between law and society during Late Antiquity
(260-640 CE). On the one hand, they consider how social changes such as the
barbarian settlement and the rise of the Christian church resulted in the creation
of new sources of legal authority, such as local and "vulgar" law,
barbarian law codes, and canon law. On the other, they investigate the
interrelationship between legal innovations and social change.
