Les Lois religieuses des empereurs romains de Constantin à Théodose II (312–438), vol. 1: Code Théodosien XVI. Latin text by Theodor Mommsen. Translation by †Jean Rougé. Introduction and notes by Roland Delmaire with the collaboration of FranÇois Richard. Pp. 524. (Sources chrétiennes, 497.) Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2005. isbn 2 204 07906 5. Paper €46
Theodor Mommsen's edition of the Theodosian Code, published late in 1904, more than a year after his death, is a monument of scholarship whose merits age cannot wither nor custom stale. Yet the text printed by Mommsen is not a critical text in the commonly accepted sense of those words, and it...
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2006
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2006, Volume: 57, Issue: 2, Pages: 725-728 |
| Review of: | Les lois religieuses des empereurs Romains de Constantin à Théodose II ; 1: Code théodosien, livre XVI (Paris : Les Éd. du Cerf, 2005) (Barnes, T. D.)
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| Summary: | Theodor Mommsen's edition of the Theodosian Code, published late in 1904, more than a year after his death, is a monument of scholarship whose merits age cannot wither nor custom stale. Yet the text printed by Mommsen is not a critical text in the commonly accepted sense of those words, and it should never be used as if it were. Mommsen's text must always be read in conjunction with his critical apparatus, where in hundreds of passages he states explicitly that he has printed readings which are in his opinion either certainly or probably wrong. |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fll083 |