Presenza della giurisprudenza classica nelle costituzioni imperiali, II.

In the elaboration of late antique chancelleries, classical jurisprudence goes far beyond the occasional citation of this or that jurist. It manifests itself, on the one hand, in the variety of levels of discourse, conditioned by classical law, whether preceptive or argumentative or in the simple textual structure, and, on the other, in the variety of forms in which ideas, motifs, techniques and notions, which constitute the common heritage of the jurists’ books, are tacitly re-employed by the drafters of imperial constitutions. The decoding of the subtle and hidden forms of this continuity – which was undertaken within the Redhis Project – reveals late antique legislation as a composite product that never ceased to have the thought of the iuris veteri auctores among its main referents.