As one authorized historian wrote, “Justinian consciously seemed back to the golden age of Roman law and aimed to restore it to the height it had reached three centuries before.” The Justinian Code remained in drive in the East until the autumn of the Byzantine Empire. Western Europe, meanwhile, relied on a mix of the Theodosian Code and Germanic customary law till the Justinian Code was rediscovered in the eleventh century, which scholars at the University of Bologna used to interpret their very own laws. Civil law codifications primarily based carefully on Roman law, alongside some influences from non secular …