Events Tagged: "Roman law"

University of Bologna founded - Irnerius begins teaching Roman law from newly discovered Digest of Justinian, birth of legal science in Western Europe

Irnerius establishes the glossator method - systematic commentary on Roman law texts, creating foundation for European legal education

Four Doctors emerge at Bologna - Bulgarus, Martinus, Jacobus, and Hugo become authoritative interpreters of Roman law

Vacarius brings Roman law to Oxford - begins teaching from his Liber Pauperum, introducing Continental legal science to England

Diet of Roncaglia - Frederick Barbarossa consults Four Doctors on imperial rights (regalia), Roman law becomes tool of royal power

Azo publishes Summa Codicis - becomes standard textbook of Roman law, 'Chi non ha Azzo non vada a palazzo' (Who doesn't have Azo shouldn't go to court)

Accursius completes Glossa Ordinaria - standard gloss on entire Corpus Juris Civilis, contains 96,940 glosses, becomes authoritative as the text itself

Fall of Constantinople brings Byzantine legal manuscripts West - Greek texts of Justinian trigger humanist legal scholarship

Reception of Roman law accelerated in Germany - imperial courts require Roman law training, displacing local customs