Il lessico dell'infamia nella legislazione imperiale tardoantica (secc. IV-V d.C.)

Despite the numerous studies on ‘infamia’ in Roman law, there is still a significant gap for the period from Constantine to Justinian. One of the reasons for this is doubtless furnished by the difficulties of the rhetorical and prolix style typical of late antique imperial constitutions, often indeed condemned as using imprecise legal terminology. The present study offers a lexicon of ‘infamia’ as it emerges from the constitutions enacted in the fourth-sixth centuries A.D. It is conceived as a preliminary and necessary step towards more substantial research on this subject.