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Law and Empire in Late Antiquity. By Jill Harries. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. ix, 235. $59.95.)

Few scholars come with more impressive credentials than those of Jill Harries to the indomitable task of unraveling the intricacies of legalities in late antiquity. Fewer still could have succeeded so well.

The author's point of departure is the Theodosian Code, an imperial undertaking of the early fifth century aimed at reducing centuries of ...