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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 February 2009
The “Fall of the Western Empire” was a re-gathering of the Roman world under one Head, administering one Law. The Emperor of the West, Valentinian III. (442), after his peace with Genseric, and before the Council of Chalcedon (451), had promulgated the “Theodosian Code” in Europe; so that the reunion of the empire was in many ways more easy than it might otherwise have been (476).
page 265 note * The Emperors reigning at Constantinople (up to the fifteenth century) would not, indeed, recognise this. Even the last, and one of the bravest of them all, Constantine Pateologus (1453), was fain to assert the oneness of the Empire; but the facts were against him.
page 275 note * From what remains of this book we see that a kind of philosophical arrangement of subjects was attempted. It begins with God, Righteousness, Law, &c, and then goes on to Constitutions and Rescripts, and descends into details, both Secular and Ecclesiastical. Then follow Regulations as to Commerce, Property, Labour, the Family, Wills, and so on.–But this all belongs to a later time.