Luci e ombre del Tardoantico nelle Costituzioni Sirmondiane

Abstract

Abstract The text aims to propose a summary speech on Constitutiones Sirmondianae, highlighting the various grounds for discussion that have arisen from reading them since the first edition of 1631: discovery, attribution, authenticity, and above all the themes they deal with considered one by one, and thus the 4th-5th century society to which they refer. The topic that all of them involve, which is the episcopalis audientia, must attract a minimum of specific attention, and can perhaps be interpreted in a more ‘political’ sense: in the concessions that Constantine and the emperors after him had to make to the new religion, the episcopalis audientia attracted a practice of ‘judgment’ of the bishop that had been consolidating in the Christian community, which also became ‘opinion’ or, if you like, ‘testimony’, to be examined by the civil judge.

Keywords

• sirmondiane
• teodosiano
• thedosian code
• chiesa
• church
• fonti
• sources
• tardoantico
• diritto romano
• roman law
• römisches recht
• derecho romano
• diritti antichi
• ancient law