The Digest of Justinian, Volume 4
Alan Watson - University of Pennsylvania Press, 24 giu 2011
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| Anteprima |
When
Justinian became sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire in A.D. 527, he
ordered the preparation of three compilations of Roman law that together
formed the Corpus Juris Civilis. These works have become known
individually as the Code, which collected the legal pronouncements of the Roman emperors, the Institutes, an elementary student's textbook, and the Digest, by far the largest and most highly prized of the three compilations. The Digest
was assembled by a team of sixteen academic lawyers commissioned by
Justinian in 533 to cull everything of value from earlier Roman law. It
was for centuries the focal point of legal education in the West and
remains today an unprecedented collection of the commentaries of Roman
jurists on the civil law.
Commissioned by the Commonwealth Fund in
1978, Alan Watson assembled a team of thirty specialists to produce
this magisterial translation, which was first completed and published in
1985 with Theodor Mommsen's Latin text of 1878 on facing pages. This
paperback edition presents a corrected English-language text alone, with
an introduction by Alan Watson.
