Roman Law and the Western Tradition
Sethina Watson
Having sketched the shape of hospital in Carolingian Francia and Lombardy, investigation now moves earlier, to uncover legal foundations welfare, as fostered under Roman law. This chapter redefines tradition for welfare facilities law identifies a distinctive Western model. It reappraises two extracts from Julian’s <italic>Epitome</italic> <italic>Collectio capitularium</italic> Ansegis Saint-Wandrille, only evidence Justinianic West regarding hospitals. These are found not relate new light is shed both on palace’s use these possible character Ansegis’s book 2, Louis Pious’s ecclesiastical laws. The then uses Justinian’s collections explore long development law, finding them first accommodated testamentary argues that this basic model was moulded East, via ‘pious promise’, into an institution divine or public In West, however, early form developed documentary practices characterized <italic>c</italic>.400–800. reveal approach, which enshrined but right institute; is, testator prescribe fix acts human charity. A final section offers account institutions Christianity, East diverged vernacular Christian practice, one owned by church enacted testators.
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