'Arcaismi' come valori nella legislazione pubblicistica di Giustiniano

It is known that the Emperor Justinian gave a special value to the ’past’. It was not a purely historical-antiquarian interest, but an inner conviction of the validity of the model proposed by it, that it was necessary to refer to and which it was impossible to diverge from, if not for justifiable reasons. This paper aims to investigate the reflections in The field of public law of the positive values of which, in the eyes of the emperor, antiquitas was a carrier, with special regard to the large project of reorganization of the State, programmed by Justinian in the initial stage of his reign.