HIST-308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Philip Ii Of France, Alfonso X Of Castile, Siete Partidas
17 Nov 2020
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By 1100 a legal scholar named irnerius lectured at the school in bologna on the complete text. Irnerius taught roman law as a system, an organic whole. not merely as a compilation of various bits of legislation, which is how scraps of roman laws had been known and passed on in earlier centuries. Law as represented by the corpus, is a constantly evolving social creation, not a static body of immutable customs. For the urban south it provided an immediate blueprint for administering society. even though obviously many of the specific laws that were contained in the corpus had to be jettisoned as no longer appropriate. As one moved northward into feudal europe, the direct incorporation of the roman law decreased. even there the rulers made explicit attempts to introduce the system into the emerging urban areas of those realms. But the impact of the corpus shows as well in the systematization of laws throughout europe.
