Tony Honore

Biographic Data

ID3949629
NAMETony Honore
GIVEN NAMESTony
FAMILY NAMEHonore
SIGNATUREHONORÉ T
AFFILIATIONSScience Oxford
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS50
TOTAL CITATIONS53
AUTHOR COUNT50
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1978
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
H-INDEX4

  • How Tribonian Organized the Compilation of Justinian’s Digest1

    Tony HonoreCHAPTERJustinian's Digest2010

    In 1970 the author of this book and Alan Rodger published an article on how Justinian's commissioners read books and excerpted texts for the Digest. It attracted controversy. They dealt with the reading and excerpting of the classical literature rather than the later phase of the Digest project in which the texts were edited and put together in titles and books. They were concerned with how Tribonian organized the project rather than with identif…

  • Ulpian, Natural law and Stoic influence

    Tony HonoreARTICLETijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis…2010Cited by: 4

    Ulpian's statement in the first text of the Digest that natural law is part of private law is genuine and his view that humans share natural law with animals is influenced by Stoic philosophy, as is his cosmopolitan outlook. The recognition of natural law as a source of law in the Severan age formalised what had long been the case

  • Justinian's Digest: Character and Compilation

    Tony HonoreBOOKJustinian's Digest2010Cited by: 11

    1. Introduction 2. How Tribonian Organized the Compilation of Justinian's Digest 3. The Distribution of Authors and Works to the Committees 4. Editing the Digest 5. Late Arrivals. The Appendix Reconsidered 6. Some Digest Texts of Ulpian Attributed to Paul Addendum A: Bluhme-Kruger Ordo (updated) Addendum B: Analysis of Displaced Texts Bibliography Index of Texts

  • Late Arrivals: The Appendix in Justinian's Digest Reconsidered

    Tony HonoreCHAPTERMapping the law2006

    The influence of Roman law in the development of modern legal systems was only possible because of the work of the group of lawyers in sixth-century Constantinople who compiled the Digest. This chapter focuses on the group of works known as the Appendix. It argues that the Appendix comprises works which were not available to the compilers until the process of reading was already under way. The compilers first shared these new works out among the …

  • Ulpian

    Tony HonoreBOOKUlpian2002

    This is the only full-scale modern account of the life and work of the early 3rd-century lawyer from Syria who contributed two-fifths of Justinian’s 6th-century Digest, which for many centuries formed the staple of European legal education. His writing has been at least as influential as that of any lawyer, ancient or modern. As an intellectual in government he not only wrote about Roman law and administration, public and private, on a massive sc…

  • Dates and Plan II: Quinquennium Ulpiani

    Tony HonoreCHAPTERUlpian2002

  • Genuine Works

    Tony HonoreCHAPTERUlpian2002

    This chapter lists those works of Ulpian which can be regarded as genuine by the criteria of style listed in Chapter 2. They include the major commentaries on the edict Sabinus, four medium-scale works and seventeen minor works. The evidence is set out book by book.

  • Spurious Works

    Tony HonoreCHAPTERUlpian2002

    This chapter lists five works, those concerning Rules, Replies, Opinions, and Encyclopedia, that lack the criteria of style listed in Chapter 2 and can be regarded as spurious. These have been attributed to Ulpian either because their author shared the names of the famous Domitius Ulpianus or because the author wished to pass them off as his.

  • Epilogue

    Tony HonoreCHAPTERUlpian2002

    This epilogue deals briefly with some later Roman developments that concern Ulpian, especially his relation to the Law of Citations of 426 and to Tribonian in the 6th century.

  • The Oral Style

    Tony HonoreCHAPTERUlpian2002

    This chapter studies Ulpian’s prose style and helps to establish which of the works attributed to him are genuine and which texts attributed to others are in fact his. His style is clear, simple, consistent, and personal. It is distinctively an oral style, unusual among legal writers, informed by experience of teaching and dictating to a secretary. Short words and clauses are preferred. There are many introductory and connective phrases, as there…

  • Dates and Plan I: On the Edict

    Tony HonoreCHAPTERUlpian2002

    This chapter and the next two are concerned with fixing the dates of Ulpian’s works and the order and rate at which he composed them. This chapter concerns his eighty-one books On the Edict, his longest work, written in two parts of the reign of Caracalla (imperator noster) in the first of which he come after his father (divus Severus) and in the second precedes him.

  • Background and Career

    Tony HonoreCHAPTERUlpian2002

    This chapter deals with the political background at the time of the Severan dynasty (193–235 AD), with Ulpian’s origin in Tyre in Syria and his career, his drafting of imperial rescripts as secretary for petitions, his voluminous writing under Caracalla (211–217), his relation to the Syrian princess Julia Mammaea descended from Severus’ second wife, Julia Domna, and his role as prefect of supply and praetorian prefect under Alexander Severus, whi…

  • Ulpian: Pioneer of Human Rights

    Tony HonoreBOOKUlpian2002

    This is a new edition of the work on the most influential lawyer of all time, the Syrian Ulpian. He wrote a massive survey of Roman law in 213-17 AD & Tony Honoré argues that his philosophy of freedom & equality make him a pioneer of human rights

  • Honorius: The Milan Period (395–402)

    Tony HonoreCHAPTERLaw in the crisis of empire,…1998

    This chapter discusses an analysis of the 151 laws that were enacted during the Milan Period (395–401). Fragments of these laws survive and allow identification of their respective quaestors: Hadrianus, Felix, Decius Albinus, Florentinus, and Alethius. The Western laws show less marked changes of style than the Eastern laws, so that to fix periods of quaestorial office is more difficult in the West than it is in the East.

  • Valentinian II and Maximus (383–392)

    Tony HonoreCHAPTERLaw in the crisis of empire,…1998

    This chapter discusses the laws that were enacted by Valentinian II in the West between 383–7 and 389–92. These laws are considered to be from the Theodosian age in this chapter. The discussion begins with an account of the laws that were enacted in the period of the Theodosian dynasty in the West from 383. Only eight or nine of the laws that were enacted by Valentinian II survive to this day.

  • Theodosius II: Beyond the Code (438–450)

    Tony HonoreCHAPTERLaw in the crisis of empire,…1998

    This chapter discusses several laws that were enacted after the Theodosian Code was formed. The first part of the chapter is devoted to a description of some general features of these post-Code laws and the assignment of these laws to their respective quaestors. Four quaestors can be discerned from this period: Martyrius, Epigenes, Procopius, and an unnamed fourth quaestor. The laws of this post-Code period were influenced by the ideology of the …

  • Valentinian III: The Later Years (438–455)

    Tony HonoreCHAPTERLaw in the crisis of empire,…1998

    This chapter discusses the laws made during the later part of the reign of Valentinian III, which made him appear as opinionated and volatile. Out of all the laws that were enacted during this period, only forty-seven of these survive today. The laws were enacted during the last few years of his reign and when the governing class in the West knew that the destabilizing effects of Alaric's incursions fifty years before had not been overcome. Howev…

  • Law in the Age of Crisis

    Tony HonoreCHAPTERLaw in the crisis of empire,…1998

    This chapter discusses a summary of the analysis of laws and legal culture presented in the following chapters. This summary also assumes the correctness of the results of that analysis and places them in an even wider context. The discussion also touches on the subject of law in the Roman Empire during the Theodosian age, which was considered as a time of crisis.

  • Valentinian III and Galla Placidia (425–437)

    Tony HonoreCHAPTERLaw in the crisis of empire,…1998

    This chapter discusses the laws enacted by Valentinian III, the nephew of Honorius. Even though he was only four when his uncle died, a number of laws were enacted in his name when the imperial party was at Aquileia. There was a group of five constitutions issued there in the name of Theodosius as Augustus and Valentinian as Caesar.

  • Theodosius I: Flavianus and the Later Years (388–395)

    Tony HonoreCHAPTERLaw in the crisis of empire,…1998

    This chapter discusses the legislation of Theodosius I. There were three quaestors during the later part of his reign, the first of whom is considered to be the most striking of the three holders. There are thirty-eight laws that survive between October 388 and June 390, allowing a glimpse of the forceful personality of a reactionary statesman whom even his enemies admired.

  • Arcadius (394–408) and Eutropius’ Quaestor

    Tony HonoreCHAPTERLaw in the crisis of empire,…1998

    This chapter discusses the quaestors during the reign of Arcadius, the son of Theodosius I. From the style of the laws that were enacted during his reign, it can be distinguished that six quaestors existed, although none of them are known by name.

  • Theodosius I: The First Decade (379–388)

    Tony HonoreCHAPTERLaw in the crisis of empire,…1998

    This chapter discusses the first analysis of the laws in the Theodosian dynasty, specifically those of Theodosius I. The laws enacted by Theodosius I are treated as part of the Eastern series though in 388–91 and again in 394–5 he remained in the West after he defeated Maximus and Eugenius. The laws that are dealt with and discussed in this chapter are those from the first decade of Theodosius I's government.

  • Understanding the Theodosian Code

    Tony HonoreCHAPTERLaw in the crisis of empire,…1998

    This chapter discusses the Theodosian Code. Along with this discussion, the chapter also presents certain aspects of the Code that bear on how it should be understood and interpreted. These include the aims and designs of the Code, the laws the commissioners collected and from which sources these laws were gathered, the initiative for law-making and the inputs into these laws, and how these were edited by the compilers of the Code.

  • Honorius: The Ravenna Period (402–423)

    Tony HonoreCHAPTERLaw in the crisis of empire,…1998

    This chapter discusses the laws that were enacted during the Ravenna Period. From the time the imperial court moved to Ravenna until Honorius' death, excerpts survive from 199 constitutions and are drawn from 260 texts. These excerpts are mainly preserved in the Theodosian Code and also include ten from the Sirmodian constitutions.

  • Theodosius II: Towards the Code (408–437)

    Tony HonoreCHAPTERLaw in the crisis of empire,…1998

    This chapter discusses Theodosius II's legislation up to March 16, 437, the date of the last law included in the Theodosian Code, and the quaestors who were responsible for drafting it. Theodosius II was the son of Arcadius, and he was only seven years old when the executive power was thrust on him. In this chapter, only ten of the 14 quaestors during the reign of Theodosius II are discussed, as well as the respective laws that they had drafted.