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PS. I found already a good book, but I still would appreciate some other sources. Some more obscure, if you may, of course I am familiar with Gibbon and other most known authors in the field.

Gibbon is shit. Its well researched for the time but its been refuted by 200 years of new evidence. You *might* be able to use it as a source for what you're looking for but its a bit outdated.

Gibbon definitely made some points that still stand in today's academics. The main point that he fails on is the wide point he makes about Christianity leading to a kind of "apathy" in the empire and making it disintegrate because the people were too obsessed with heaven to care about Rome.

In that regard, if you're going to read The Decline and Fall, also read Augustine's City of God for a direct refutation of the above theory; that book shows a general Christian perspective on philosophical matters alongside the idea of the empire. Though, neither of the two books really have a whole lot to do with the intricacies of Roman laws, so you should read them as a point of interest, more or less.

I'm aware enough that 'Dark Ages' were not that 'Dark', so I obviously don't buy everything Gibbon says.

I noticed that my supervisor who is a practicising Christian is a fan of Julian the Apostate, and he deems anti-politheist laws as intolerant. I like him even more now, because Polish Catholic inteligentsia of today in general is not much tolerant and open. Dr. Jakubowski is quite worldly guy who toured Europe as opera singer (he retired a year ago) before it was cool and Communist frowned on travelling to the West. He also knows English, Spanish, French, German and Latin perfectly.

So is the law of the ERE out?

Not, because the Justinian period is covered by the seminar. Thus, I think 6th century ERE counts.

Well, I know that already.

I'd get clarification on if you could, but yeah Justinian code.

It's confirmed.