Notes bibliogr.

Introduction / Linda Jones Hall The size of the law : document dimensions and their significance in the imperial administration / R.I.S. Altman Ritual, religion, and the law : transformations in architecture under the Tetrarchy / Joanne Mannell Noel Justinian's Novels and the law of succession / Charles Pazdernik A case study for the transformation of law in late antiquity : the legal protection of churches / Beatrice Caseau The church and the duties of the Christian soldier / John F. Shean Pragmatic application of proto-canon law : episcopal translation / Mary E. Sommar From Alaric to the Arab conquest : Visigothic efforts to achieve Romanitas / Karen Eva Carr Duplex ius : conflict and competition between Romano-Byzantine law and folk law in the Balkans / Linda Ellis and Marius Tiberius Alexianu Lex Burgundionum and Burgundian kings : practices of private legal guarantee (fideiussio) and royal innovation / Dmitri N. Starostine Who was Æthelberht's laet? / Lisi Oliver Ethnicity, religion, and class in late antique Berytus, city of the Roman law schools / Linda Jones Hall