Confrontation in late antiquity: imperial presentation and regional adaptation

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Introduction / Linda Jones Hall -- The size of the law : document dimensions and their significance in the imperial administration / R.I.S. Altman -- Ritual, religion, and the law : transformations in architecture under the Tetrarchy / Joanne Mannell Noel -- Justinian's Novels and the law of succession / Charles Pazdernik -- A case study for the transformation of law in late antiquity : the legal protection of churches / Beatrice Caseau -- The church and the duties of the Christian soldier / John F. Shean -- Pragmatic application of proto-canon law : episcopal translation / Mary E. Sommar -- From Alaric to the Arab conquest : Visigothic efforts to achieve Romanitas / Karen Eva Carr -- Duplex ius : conflict and competition between Romano-Byzantine law and folk law in the Balkans / Linda Ellis and Marius Tiberius Alexianu -- Lex burgundionum and Burgundian kings : practices of private legal guarantee (fideiussio) and royal innovation / Dmitri N. Starostine -- Who was Æthelberht's laet? / Lisi Oliver -- Ethnicity, religion, and class in late antique Berytus, city of the Roman law schools / Linda Jones Hall