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A good explanation of Justinian's Code

Code of Justinian , Latin Codex Justinianus, formally Corpus Juris Civilis ("Body of Civil Law"), the collections of laws and legal interpretations developed under the sponsorship of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I from ad 529 to 565. Strictly speaking, the works did not constitute a new legal code.

A good starting source for learning the Justinian Code

This is an informative video that explains Hammurabi and his code, and explains the importance of the laws that he put in place, and his code's effect on life today.

A short video connecting the laws that Hammurabi set forth to those that are in place today. Hammurabi is credited with establishing codified law, something that has been improved upon since that time.

This video shows how the Hammurabi Code has affected the laws that we have today. It was very interesting to see how much it has helped our own laws.

Justinian Code: Ancient Rome/Byzantine Empire Background on Justinian's Code (Byzantine Empire, 534 CE). Hand-out focuses on composition of the Code, including interlinked areas of civil law, law of nations, and natural law. Excerpts fromMedieval Legal History Sourcebook. [View as: Word document or PDF] What is the Justinian Code?

This site gives a breakdown of what this code of laws were for the Byzantine Empire.

SUPER SITE for everything about the Justinian Code. Best i've seen.

This website paraphrases Hammurabi's Code.

This is an interesting overview of the code pointing out the history behind it and listing some of the more interesting laws in it.

"Hammurabi, the king of righteousness, on whom Shamash has conferred the law, am I." "An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth." This phrase, along with the idea of written laws, goes back to ancient Mesopotamian culture that prospered long before the Bible was written or the civilizations of the Greeks or Romans flowered.

Hammurabi's Code is 44 columns of text, 28 paragraphs of which contain the actual code. There are 282 laws (possibly more have been rubbed off) that probably amend common Babylonian law rather than define it. It describes regulations for legal procedure, fixes rates on services performed in most branches of commerce and describes property rights, personal injury, and penalties for false testimony and accusations.

From the earliest times that human beings organized into groups they have created laws to govern themselves.

This a comparative essay analyzing the Justinian Code, the Mosaic Law, and the Hammurabi Code.

Critical Thinking exercise to compare The Justinian Code with modern law

Has loads of information about Hammerabi himself, the history of his Babylon rule and a list of his laws.

* Explanation by historian, Charles F. Horne * Excerpt from The Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th ed * Full translated text by L. W. King

Information about the code along with all 282 laws!

The Sermon on the Mount was teaching delivered by Jesus. In it he addressed the law of Moses, an earlier legal code which contained divinely inspired moral guidance, it is arguably the most important sermon given by anyone at any time.

Really good source of information on the code.

This site contains both the Code of Hammurabi and commentary on it.

800 years ago, Matilda came within a hair's breadth of being the first woman to be crowned queen of England in her own right. Castor explores how Matilda reached this point and why her bid for the throne ultimately failed. Her daughter-in-law Eleanor of Aquitaine was an equally formidable woman. Despite being remembered as the queen of courtly love, in reality during her long life she divorced one king and married another, only to lead a rebellion against him. She only finally achieved the power she craved in her seventies.

Pharisees were middle-class businessman that originated from the common man. They had more power in the Sanhedran, and obsessed over Jewish law.

Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker Hammurabi: The king who made the four quarters of the earth obedient The second millennium's beginning is characterized by the rise of two warring city states, Isin and Larsa, a competition which Isin loses, conquered by Rim-Sin 1822-1763 B.C.E.