Quaestiones (“KWAI-stee-oh-nays”) on this subject were developed by scholars like Hugo de Porta Ravennate. Experts on this subject were known as “those who precede,” or antecessores (“on-teh-KEH-soar-ays”). Rival Italian versions of a text on this subject were known as the Littera Bononiensis and the Littera Florentina. The motto of Berytus refers to the city’s role as a primary scholarly hub for this subject in late antiquity. Irnerius was called the “lantern of” this subject for founding a school of “glossators” who worked on it at the University of Bologna (“boh-LOH-nyah”). This subject was addressed in the Epanagoge (“eh-pah-nah-goh-GEE”), which supplanted the Ecloga by returning to the principles set out in the Institutes of Gaius. So-called “Novels” on this subject were added to a work containing the Digest, which was prepared by the quaestor Tribonian’s commission. For 10 points, name this subject that was codified by Justinian’s order in the Corpus Juris Civilis. ■END■
ANSWER: law [or civil law; or jurisprudence; or legal theory; or ius; accept Roman law; accept Byzantine law; accept Corpus Juris Civilis until read] (The motto of Berytus, modern Beirut, was “Berytus Nutrix Legum,” or “Berytus, Mother of Laws.”)
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