The course focuses on the consideration, in the light of the apparatus of historiography of the last thirty years, of the data provided by the sources in the process of inclusion of the history of the evidence and legal institutions antique and late antique as part of the political, social and religious events.
Reading and analysis of the Roman-Christian legal sources in Theodosianus Codex and in the Corpus Juris Civilis in relation at the ecclesiastical institutions.
L. De Giovanni, Istituzioni, Scienza giuridica, Codici nel mondo tardo antico. Alle radici di una nuova storia, L’ “Erma” di Bretschneider- Roma 2007, pp. 520.
L. De Giovanni, Chiesa e Stato nel codice Teodosiano, Napoli 1980, pp. 204.
Les Lois Religieuses des Empereurs Romains de Costantin à Théodose II (312-438) vol. I, Code Théodosien livre XVI. Texte latin T. Mommsen, traduction J. Rougé, introduction et notes R. Delmaire, avec la collaboration de F. Richard, Sources Chrétiennes 497, Paris 2005, pp. 111-295.