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As one legal historian wrote, “Justinian consciously looked again to the golden age of Roman law and aimed to restore it to the height it had reached three centuries before.” The Justinian Code remained in force within the East until the fall of the Byzantine Empire. Western Europe, in the meantime, relied on a combine of the Theodosian Code and Germanic customary law until the Justinian Code was rediscovered within the eleventh century, which students on the University of Bologna used to interpret their own laws. Civil law codifications based carefully on Roman law, alongside some influences from non secular…

As one legal historian wrote, “Justinian consciously looked again to the golden age of Roman law and aimed to restore it to the height it had reached three centuries before.” The Justinian Code remained in force within the East until the fall of the Byzantine Empire. Western Europe, in the meantime, relied on a combine of the Theodosian Code and Germanic customary law until the Justinian Code was rediscovered within the eleventh century, which students on the University of Bologna used to interpret their own laws. Civil law codifications based carefully on Roman law, alongside some influences from non secular…