Law in the Crisis of Empire 379-455 Ad: The Theodosian Dynasty and Its Quaestors

By Tony Honoré and Tony Honor'e

This new book by an eminent legal scholar and author can be described in a number of ways: a work of reference; an essay in the study of style; a contribution to the prosopography of the late Roman quaestorship; and a reflection on the fall of the western (and on the survival of the eastern)
Roman empire. Using an innovative method of analysis--already successfully employed in his acclaimed Emperors and Lawyers (OUP 1994)--the author examines the laws of a crucial phase of the later Roman empire (379-455 AD), a period during which the west collapsed while the east persisted. He allots
the laws to their likely drafters and shows why the eastern Theodosian Code (429-438 AD), intended to restore the legal and administrative unity of the Roman empire, came too late to save the west. The book includes a Palingenesia--as stored on an accompanying floppy disk--allowing scholars to read
the primary texts chronologically and judge the soundness of the arguments advanced.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198260784
• ISBN13: 9780198260783
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"