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Project Volterra
The Project Volterra
The «Projet Volterra» was established in honour of the memory
of the distinguished Roman lawyer Edoardo Volterra (1904-1984), whose
widow
left his substantial and rich collection of Roman law books to the École
Française de Rome. A catalogue of the older items, with reminiscences
by relatives and colleagues, has now been published by Douglas Osler
as vol. 3 in the series Bibliographica
Iuridica (Frankfurt-am-Main, 2006).
The general aims of the Projet
Volterra
are to promote the study of Roman law in its full social, political
and legal context.
The first phase of this project in Britain (Volterra I) ran
from 1995 to 2004, based in the Department
of History at University
College London, being initially funded by the British
Academy and then
by the Arts and Humanities Research
Board.
Entitled Law and
Empire
AD193-455,
it focused on later Roman imperial
legal
pronouncements
and its primary output was an on-line searchable database of all imperial
pronouncements in Latin from the late second to mid-fifth centuries.
Although this phase is now finished, its product is a 'living database'
that continues
to be up-dated and maintained courtesy of periodic funding from
the British Academy, which adopted the Projet Volterra in
2005 as one of its long term research projects.
The second phase of the project, entitled Law and the End of Empire (Volterra
II), started in September 2005. This comprises two five-year research
projects funded by the
Arts and Humanities Reseach Council (2005-2010,
2011-2015), and it continues to be based in the Department of History
at University
College
London. It carries on chronologically from where
Volterra I left off. Based on a thorough analysis of the surviving
texts and their
transmission, the aim of this phase of the project is to produce a history,
with supporting database and on-line resources, of the law (Roman,
Germanic
or ‘barbarian’,
and ecclesiastical) in all its aspects in continental Europe between
the end of the Roman Empire in the west and the Carolingian period.
The team working on the project initially comprised Professor Michael
Crawford and Dr Benet Salway, based in the
Department of
History at University College London, where they were joined by Dr Simon
Corcoran in 1999. The team was augmented
by Dr Magnus Ryan, Faculty of History
and Peterhouse, Cambridge for the first part of Volterra II (2005-2010).
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