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Corpus Iuris: The Body That Remains

Corpus Iuris: The Body That Remains

Van Houte, Cornelis

Paperback

Series: Roman Law, Book 12

Ancient RomeFiction AnthologiesGeneral Law

ISBN13: 9798254121954
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 29 2026
Pages: 386
Weight: 1.47
Height: 0.80 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
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.

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