Dr Lorena Atzeri (Università degli Studi di Milano) “The Pauli Sententiae and their interpretationes in the Context of the Lex Romana Visigothorum (506 AD)”

About the event

In the last two centuries, and again in very recent years, numerous studies have been devoted to the Pauli Sententiae, the text of which was largely transmitted by the Lex Romana Visigothorum, or Breviarium Alaricianum. Much attention has also been directed to the interpretationes which accompany many of those sententiae in the Breviarium. But as most of the scholars have predominantly focused on the work circulating under the name of the Roman jurist Paul, the role of the Pauli Sententiae and the nature of their interpretationes in the context of the Lex Romana Visigothorum have been less investigated sofar. This paper will concentrate on that role and also examine the relationship between the Pauli Sententiae and the other parts of the Breviarium.

About the speaker

Dr Lorena Atzeri, currently Research Fellow at the ‘Università degli Studi’ of Milan.

2004 PhD at the Università “La Sapienza” of Rome; 2008 Post-doc at the SUM (Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane) of Florence; 2008-2013 Visiting Researcher at the Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte of Frankfurt am Main; 2013-2014 Research Fellow in the Project “Edition und Bearbeitung byzantinischer Rechtsquellen” of the Akademie der Wissenschaften of Göttingen. Many research visits in England (Oxford) and Scotland (Edinburgh, Aberdeen); Germany (Freiburg i.Br., Frankfurt a.M.)

Research fields: Roman law and its sources in Late Antiquity (especially the Theodosian Code); infamia and reputation in Late Antique legislation; Roman Law studies in 19th and 20th Century in Germany and Britain; the editing of legal papyri in Oxford in the 20th century; the editing of the Peira of Eustathios Rhomaios and of the Hexabiblos.

Main publications:

-Gesta senatus Romani de Theodosiano publicando. Il Codice Teodosiano e la sua diffusione ufficiale in Occidente, Berlin 2008.

-Various articles on infamia in Roman law.

- Le costituzioni programmatiche del Teodosiano: il progetto e il suo svolgimento, in Il Codice Teodosiano: redazione, trasmissione, ricezione. Atti del CEDANT 2019 (to be published).

-Roman Law from the Desert. A. S. Hunt, F. de Zulueta, E. Levy, V. Arangio-Ruiz and the Editing of Legal Papyri, in: ZRG RA 138 (2021) 446-506

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