Cultura jurídica e instituciones cívicas entre la Antigüedad Tardía y la Alta Edad Media. Observaciones a propósito de De laude Pampilone epistola [Legal Culture and Civic Institutions between Late Antiquity and Early Middle]

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Abstract

The letter of emperor Honorius, as it is now preserved in the Codex of Roda, is the result of five different writings: the original document, its transcription with commentaries into the gesta publica of Pampilona at the time of reception, its abstract from Visigothic time, its gloss and definitive copy in the Codex Rotensis at the end of the same century. Each one answers to the own institutional evolution of the town. Pampilona was given the epistula as ciuitas Romana privileged by the prince. Thus, during the Visigothic Kingdom, when the law’s dispositives were out of force, the text was taken as a memorial of the Roman past of the Pampilona’s citizens. Finally, at the beginning of the 10th century...