Mea sanxit aeternitas: Giustiniano e l'« eterno conflitto » tra ideale e realtà

• Autores: Salvatore Puliatti
• Localización: Mélanges de l'Ecole française de Rome. Antiquité, ISSN 0223-5102, Vol. 125, Nº. 2, 2013
• Idioma: italiano
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  • Justinian used to consider its Compilation perfect and exemplar to the point of portraying it as a « legal manifesto » of his age. Through an analysis of the statements of the Emperor contained in the legislation, it is nonetheless possible to discover a more critical and less celebratory attitude, especially when Justinian recognizes the presence of imperfections and gaps, which he plans to correct by means of a unitary scheme to be implemented through the Novellae.