Compilation of the Corpus Iuris Civilis

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Justinian's commission under Tribonian produces the Code, Digest, Institutes and later Novels, condensing roughly a thousand years of Roman jurisprudence. It is issued from Constantinople, in the name of the Roman emperor, more than fifty years after the conventional 'fall'. Almost everything we know of classical Roman law we know because of this compilation - which also means we see the jurists through 6th-century editorial choices.

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