Contents

List of contributors                                                                                         vi

Introduction: The Background to the Code Jill Harries                           1

Part I.

Introductory Note Jill Harries                                                                      17

1.     The Making of the Text John Matthews                                            19

2.     The Sources of the Code Boudewijn Sirks                                         45

3.     Some Quaestors of the Reign of Theodosius II Tony Honore 68

Part IL Constantine, Christianity and the Code

Introductory Note Jill Harries                                                                      95

4.     Hidden from History: the legislation of Licinius

Simon Corcoran                                                                                     97

5.     lang=EN-US>Constantine and Imperial Legislation on the

Family Judith Evans Grubbs                                                              120

6.     Christianising the Roman Empire: the evidence of the

Code David Hunt                                                                                  143

Part III. Nachleben*.

Introductory Note Ian Wood                                                                       159

7.     The Code in Merovingian Gaul Ian Wood                                         161

8.     The Origins of the Collectio Sirmondiana: a new look at

the evidence Mark Vessey                                                                       178

9.     From Benedict to Gratian: the Code in medieval

ecclesiastical authors       Dafydd Walters                                            200

Epilogue

10.    Mommsen’s Encounter with the Code Brian Croke                        217

Bibliography                                                                                                   240

Index                                                                                                                254