It was Theodosius Augustus the younger (401-450 C.E.) who later collected the laws from Constantine's time until his own to create his
Theodosian Code (created between 429-438).
An example may be found in the
Theodosian Code (CT), a codification of law compiled in 438 AD under the emperor Theodosius II.
This creative investigation of underwater archaeology and the provisions for shipowners in the
Theodosian Code suggests the advantages gained from promoting the newer ships and the shipowners who helped provide them.
Among her topics are the Jewish-Christian schism, the
Theodosian Code and laws on Jews, the separation of Sunday from Sabbath, and Christianity in rabbinical literature.
(28) While not cited specifically, the sources for this lex and ius were the late third-century Gregorian and Hermogenian Codes; extracts from the commentaries and legal opinions of the third-century jurists Marcian, Ulpian, and Paul; the
Theodosian Code (CTh); and some post-Theodosian Novels.
However, some common threads can be drawn from each distinct area analysed: Christian praxis was gradually de-judaised, firstly under the "moral" authority of Church councils, and later under the "judicial" authority of the
Theodosian Code. Christian theology increasingly divinised the person of Jesus, a position enshrined definitively at Nicaea.
The Code of the Visigoths, governing what is now Spain and southern France, contained many features of the Roman
Theodosian Code, and on Christmas Day 800 A.D.
That was true even of the titles given bishops in The
Theodosian Code (di Berardino).
The
Theodosian Code, a decade after Augustine's death, included 120 laws that included punishment by death.
The collection of edicts known as the
Theodosian Code (AD 428), which contained legal pronunciamenti from more or less the whole of the fourth century, forbade consultation of magicians or diviners, regarded necromancy as highly dangerous, since it sought to foretell the future by raising and communicating with the dead, and imposed the death penalty on practitioners of magic.
Arjava starts from an awareness of the gaps in the surviving evidence: the Justinianic corpus omitted material in the classical jurists which was obsolete by the sixth century, the title De repudiis is missing from the manuscripts of the
Theodosian Code, and the two constitutions from it which are preserved survive only because they were included in the Breviary of Alaric.