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From 529 to 534 AD the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I codified and consolidated Roman law up till that point, so that what remained was one-twentieth of the mass of authorized texts from before. As one authorized historian wrote, “Justinian consciously looked back to the golden age of Roman law and aimed to restore it to the height it had reached three centuries earlier than.” The Justinian Code remained in drive within the East until the autumn of the Byzantine Empire. Western Europe, meanwhile, relied on a combination of the Theodosian Code and Germanic customary law until the Justinian Code was…Continue Reading