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Volterra Project
The
Project Volterra is an international (French -Italian-British) project
whose aims are to promote the study of Roman law in its full social,
political and legal context. Despite being an inherently 'national'
phenomenon (the law pertaining to all those of Roman political status
and their dependents), the Roman law itself became a transnational
phenomenon in two distinct way and in two distinct phases. First, the
persistence of Roman civil status in several of the successor kingdoms
of the Roman west (Vandal Africa, Visigothic Spain, and Frankish Gaul)
entailed a continuing life for Roman law beyond the confines of the
surviving late Roman/Byzantine state and, as such, formed part of the
legal culture of Europe's nascent nation states. Secondly, the
rediscovery of the texts of the emperor Justinian's legal compilation by
Italian scholars of the eleventh century led to the flowering of new
law schools, most famously in Bologna. This academically revived Ius
Civile formed the basis of the Ius Commune of later medieval Latin
Christendom and Europe of the early modern period, ultimately
influencing the Napoleon's Code civil (1804) and the German Bürgerliches
Gesetzbuch (1900) which form the model for the civil law of the
majority of the modern states of Europe and many beyond.
The research team comprises Simon Corcoranm Michael Crawford (chairman), Magnus Ryan, and Benet Salway
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