The Roman jurists were probably the first who derived institutiones as a title for elementary textbooks from the term institutio (teaching course) in the 2nd cent. The significance of this Roman genre for European legal history extends far beyond what one might expect of ancient introductory didactic works: when the work of codifying Roman juristic law in the form of the Digesta had advanced to a point that their success seemed certain, in AD 533 emperor Justinian commissioned his minister of justice Tribonianus as well as the Byzantine law teachers Theopilus [7] and …
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Schiemann, Gottfried (Tübingen), “Institutiones”, in: Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry. Consulted online on 19 March 2024 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e525090>
First published online: 2006
First print edition: 9789004122598, 20110510
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