File:The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century - a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and (14591762077).jpg

Identifier: greatestnations03elli (find matches)
Title: The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : F.R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
r. Di-rectly on his accession, he set to work to collect the vast mass of previous leg-islative enactments which were still in force; and, to make this thorough, hefirst compiled a code comprising all the constitutions of his predecessors (527-529). Next the authoritative commentaries of the jurists were harmonized andpublished under the title of Digesta Pandccta (529-533). The code was re-published in 534, with the addition of Julians own laws. His third importantlegal undertaking was the composition of a systematic treatise on the law forthe guidance of students and lawyers, which was published shortly before theDigest, under the title of Institiitioiics (Institutes). All these great workswere completed under the guidance and superintendence of the learned juristTribonian. They were originally written in Latin, while the later treatiseswhich Justinian caused to be prepared were in Greek, and bore the name No-vellcB or New Works. This complete system, known as the Civil Law, formed I
Text Appearing After Image:
Rome—End of the Western Empire 449 the groundwork of the law of nearly all of the nations of Europe, England beingthe most notable exception. After the fall of Rome and the collapse of the Western Empire, Odoacer, theVisigothic chief, continued governing, claiming to do so by authority of the Em-peror of the East, but he paid little attention to the Byzantine court at Constan-tinople. Meanwhile, the Ostrogoths, or Eastern Goths, had established a kingdombetween the Black Sea and the Adriatic, under the rule of their own hero, Theo-doric. The Emperor Zeno commissioned Theodoric to invade Italy and bringthat country back into the Empire. With Theodoric went all his people, includingwomen and children and aged men, so that it was another migration of a nation.The campaign against Odoacer lasted for three years, but in 493 he was compelledto come to terms, and soon after was assassinated by his rival. Theodoric distrib-uted one-third of the conquered territory among his soldiers in mili

Note About Images