This change from the Roman Empire happened when Emperor Constantine ended the Christian persecution and moved the capital from Rome to Constantinople and Emperor Theodosius also changed the official religion of Rome to Christianity. The previous Roman Empire were polytheists who believe in similar gods to the Greeks. After the collapse of the Roman Empire, the eastern half used newer Roman ideas to influence reconstruction, though the new empire was vastly different “Although the people of the Byzantine Empire considered themselves Roman, the East was influenced by Greek culture, rather than the Latin of the West. People spoke Greek and wore Greek-styled clothing. The emperors and empresses wore beautiful silk and purple-dyed clothing, with expensive slippers. The Byzantine Empire was influenced by the Hellenistic culture created by the conquests of Alexander the Great. Learning and trade thrived in the Byzantine Empire.” (Giotto). Both religion and the origin of Justinian's Code influenced who had the final …show more content…
The jury was not used to administer the law, rather to interpret the law for individual cases. The emperor, on the other hand, was used to specifically administer the law and enforce. The law also gave the greatest power to the Byzantine emperor and the head Eastern Orthodox religion was also the emperor. The group of jurors was created specially for the concern that there was no final authority, “By the second half of the third century BCE, a new professional group of specialists trained in law, the jurists, emerged to meet this demand. The jurists did not participate in administering the law, but rather focused on interpreting and generating formal opinions on the law, as the pontiffs had done in earlier days.”