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Theological disputes and the Third Ecumenical Council -Cf. Acts of the Third Ecumenical Council
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During the early Middle Ages, including the epoch of Charlemagne, western European legislation was influenced by the Breviarium, which became the chief source of Roman law in the West. This indicates clearly that Roman law at that period influenced western Europe but not through the code of Justinian, which spread in the West much later, sometime during the twelfth century. This fact is sometimes overlooked by scholars; and even such a distinguished historian as Fustel de Coulanges stated that science has proved that Justinian's collections of laws maintained their force in Gaul late into the Middle Ages. The influence of the code went still further, for the Breviarium of Alaric has apparently played some part in the history of Bulgaria.
At least it is the opinion of the famous Croatian scholar, Bogisic, whose arguments were later developed and confirmed by the Bulgarian scholar, Bobtchev, that the Breviarium Alaricianum was sent by Pope Nicholas I to the Bulgarian king Boris, after he had petitioned the pope in the year 866 to send to Bulgaria the mundane laws (leges mundanae). In answer to this demand the pope, in his Responses to the Consults of the Bulgarians (Responsa papae Nicolai ad consulta Bulgarorum), announced that he was sending them the venerable laws of the Romans (venerandae Romanorum leges), which Bogišič and Bobtchev considered to be the breviary of Alaric. Even if this be so, the value of this code in the life of the ancient Bulgarians should not be exaggerated, because only a few years later Boris broke away from the Roman curia and drew nearer to Constantinople. But the mere fact that the pope sent the Breviarium may indicate its significance in European life during the ninth century. All these instances show clearly the great and widespread influence of the Codex Theodosianus.
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