HIST-1107EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Regnum News Agency, Irnerius, Lombards
15 Dec 2020
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King clovis of the franks appointed honorary consul by the emperor in 509 ad. East emperor regarded themselves as emperors of west empire. Germanic tribes: vandals, goths, visigoths, burgundians, franks etc. Were all moving in the direction of the borders of the roman empire. Many of the newcomers were very quickly romanised. Recognition of remaining roman emperor in the east (imperium). If you are a former roman citizen, living in the west, we will apply roman law to you. but roman law was very difficult, so they actually applied poor roman law, vulgar law. Lex visigothirum, germanic law, made for the germanic citizens of the visigoths. It was difficult to tell who was still roman citizen (because of marriages). In the south however, you see much of roman vulgar law integrated in their customary law. At the end of 11th century, corpus iuris was studied in bologna. Justinian tried to reconquer parts of the roman.
