Justinian's Legal Code
In Our Time: History
11/17/16
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas brought together under Justinian I, Byzantine emperor in the 6th century AD, which were rediscovered in Western Europe in the Middle Ages and became very influential in the development of laws in many European nations and elsewhere.
With
Caroline Humfress
Professor of Medieval History at the University of St Andrews
Simon Corcoran
Lecturer in Ancient History at Newcastle University
and
Paul du Plessis
Senior Lecturer in Civil law and European legal history at the School of Law, University of Edinburgh
Producer: Simon Tillotson.
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This image: Joseph Mallord William Turner, The Fighting Temeraire, 1839 (c) The National Gallery, London
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss "The Fighting Temeraire", one of Turner's greatest works and the one he called his 'darling'. It shows one of the most famous ships of the age, a hero of Trafalgar, being towed up the Thames to the breakers' yard, sail giving way to steam. Turner displayed this masterpiece to a public which, at the time, was deep in celebration of the Temeraire era, with work on Nelson's Column underway, and it was an immediate success, with Thackeray calling the painting 'a national ode'.
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Susan Foister
Curator of Early Netherlandish, German and British Painting at the National Gallery
David Blayney Brown
Manton Curator of British Art 1790-1850 at Tate Britain
and
James Davey
Curator of Naval History at the National Maritime Museum
Producer: Simon Tillotson.
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With
Aleks Pluskowski
Associate Professor of Archaeology at the University of Reading
Nora Berend
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and
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