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Today's episode will be an interview about medieval law and its roots in ancient

law with Caroline Humphress, who is professor of history at Birkbeck College at the University of London.

Hi, Caroline.

Hi there.

Thanks for coming on the podcast again.

It's a pleasure.

Long-time listeners will know that you came on one of the special double episodes before to talk about ancient society

together with Mike Trapp.

Great to be invited back, thank you.

And this time we're going to be talking about the legal tradition. This is something I've just touched on in the previous episode because I was talking

about Gration, the great systematizer of law in the 12th century and we're going to be talking about where that tradition of

medieval law came from which in the first instance really means talking about

Roman law. So maybe you can start by telling us what sorts of works in the legal tradition came out of the Roman era.

So I think we have to remember first of all that the Roman era is a very long era.

So we're looking at the 12 tables in terms of the first

compilation of written law, which we have extant.

So that's around about 450 BC. And then we go all the way through to the Justinianic

compilation which is in the 530s AD so there's almost a millennium worth of legal

development there and an incredibly diverse set of legal

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