.... These Christians received the Roman norm of “one-hundredth” differently in the early Islamic period and did not incorporate Symeon’s pious reduction of the interest rate, or Justinian’s imperial legislation to the same effect. In Roman law, regulation of interest rates might already be found in the Twelve...

... manuscript and the legal culture of medieval Dalmatian cities, examination of the manuscript tradition and handling of the Collatio by other medieval authors can provide some insight into the broader use of the Collatio in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages and even into the reception of Roman law...

... of the Roman law of obligations. For the purpose of convenience, I will start with the broader legal context and a short discussion of the Visigothic Code itself. Next, I set out the five areas where there is evidence for Visigothic medical practice within the code: the idea of decorum, the use...

...Maria E. Doerfler Scholars of Late Antiquity have long recognized that bishops played an influential role in the formation and execution of Roman law. Such was the case even in the Syrian realm, traditionally considered the exotic hinterland of the Roman Empire. Fifth- and sixth-century sources...

..., Roman law and Greek legal traditions, the halakha in rabbinic literature, and the halakhic traditions in Qumranic literature and in the New Testament—and contextualize it within developments in legal theory and legal sociology and anthropology (that is, the rise of legal pluralism). This review shows...