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Corpus Iuris: The Body That Remains

by Cornelis Van Houte
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798254121954
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
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  • Pages: 386
  • Original Price: GBP 27.88
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 667 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Legal History

"What is written down cannot perish. What has once been entrusted to our hands remains."

Constantinople, 530 CE. The Emperor Justinian has decreed the impossible: three million lines of Roman law must be read, selected, and condensed into a single, authoritative masterpiece. The goal is the Digest-a work that will extinguish the past to govern the future.

But while the powerful commission of jurists debates legal philosophy, the true weight of history falls upon the hands of the nameless.

Eudokia is a young, skilled copyist in the imperial chancery. Tasked with transcribing the great condensation, she spends three years in a world of ink, papyrus, and silence. As she meticulously copies the words of long-dead jurists like Ulpian and Papinian, she begins to realize that she isn't just transcribing rules-she is preserving the very "body" of a civilization.
Through Eudokia's eyes, the abstract principles of justice, property, and persons become a tangible, lived reality. But as the commission cuts, alters, and erases the legal record to fit the Emperor's will, Eudokia must navigate her own mystery: a personal history as fragmented as the scrolls she transcribes.

A mesmerizing blend of historical fiction and legal philosophy, Corpus Iuris is a tribute to the "craft knowledge" of the scribes and the enduring power of the written word. It is the story of the law that built the West, and the woman whose hand gave it life.

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